End-of-summer reading list

Ordered from short to long for your time-management convenience...

• Sachs for President? (and a nice bit of commentary from Gristmill)
• A would-be serious game is looking for volunteer designers: "Village is a multiplayer online real-time strategy game for the PC that immerses the player into the role of an entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the villages of the third world"
• FastCompany explains how Timberland just raised the bar on Corporate Social Responsibility Reports
• A "born-again organic farmer" in Turkey helps hundreds in his poverty-stricken region
• Can good economics ever be good politics? Case study of India's power sector, a World Bank working paper on how the lack of political will often reflects rational political behavior
• Managing governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980, a Harvard Business School working paper on how the strategies of this global consumer products company enabled it to survive the postwar "era of confrontation" which deterred most other foreign firms from investing in India and Turkey