Books written by William Easterly
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The Economics of International Development: Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor
This book is essential reading for students, teachers and all interested in better understanding how to help – and how not to help – the world’s most disadvantaged peoples.
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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...
Why are there so many people still living on less than $1 a day? In The White Man's Burden William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses these twin tragedies head on.
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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...
Quoted in William J. Barber , British Economic Thought and India , 1600–1858 : A Study in the History of Development Economics , Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1975 , p . 138 . 34. Niall Ferguson , Empire : The Rise and Demise of the ...
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.
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What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small
The book attempts to find a consensus on which approach is likely to be more effective.
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Reinventing Foreign Aid
The urgency of reducing poverty in the developing world has been the subject of a public campaign by such unlikely policy experts as George Clooney, Alicia Keyes, Elton John, Angelina...
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
In this "bracingly iconoclastic" book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
In The Tyranny of Experts, economist William Easterly, bestselling author of The White Man's Burden, traces the history of the fight against global poverty, showing not only how these tactics have trampled the individual freedom of the ...
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for ...