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William Easterly

Born

in The United States

January 01, 1957

Website

http://www.williameasterly.org

Genre

Economics, International Development

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William Easterly is Professor of
Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is editor of Aid Watch blog, Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is the author of The White Man’s Burden: How the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006), The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT, 2001), 3 other co-edited books, and 59 articles in refereed economics journals. William Easterly received his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. He was born in West Virginia and is the 8th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio, whe ...more

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	The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good 3.83 avg rating — 5,666 ratings — published 2006 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 3.95 avg rating — 1,650 ratings — published 2001 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor 3.87 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 2014 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reinventing Foreign Aid 3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Rest 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Economics of International Development: Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor (Readings in Political Economy Book 6) 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at Thirty Years of the World Development Report by William Easterly, Larry Summers, Ernesto Zedillo 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Can Foreign Aid Do For the World's Poor? (Cato Unbound Book 42006) by William Easterly, Steve Radelet, Branko Milanović 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance by William Easterly (Editor), Carlos Alfredo Rodriguez (Editor), Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth? by William Easterly, Robert King, Ross Levine 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

tags: policy, politics

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“Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

tags: aid, development, economics, poverty

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“The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights. The emphasis on the problem of expertise makes the problem of rights worse. The technical problems of the poor (and the absence of technical solutions for those problems) are a symptom of poverty, not a cause of poverty. This book argues that the cause of poverty is the absence of political and economic rights, the absence of a free political and economic system that would find the technical solutions to the poor’s problems. The dictator whom the experts expect will accomplish the technical fixes to technical problems is not the solution; he is the problem.”
― William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

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