Robert Bates

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Robert H. Bates is a U.S. academic, currently the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. His area of focus is on political economy, specifically development. Most of his work focuses on Africa. He is the author of some 15 books.

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Africa and the disciplines: the contributions of research in Africa to the social sciences and humanities, (editor), ISBN 0-226-03900-5, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993
Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa (California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy, No 8), ISBN 0-521-24563-X, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983
Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies, ISBN 0-520-04253-0, Berkeley: University of California Press, c. 1981
Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development, ISBN 0-393-05038-6, New York : Norton, c. 2001