William Easterly

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William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) is an American

Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth
.

Easterly is the author of three books: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001); The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), which won the 2008 Hayek Prize; and The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014),[3] which was a finalist for the 2015 Hayek Prize.[4]

Biography

Born in

MIT in 1985. From 1985 to 2001 he worked at the World Bank as an economist and senior adviser at the Macroeconomics and Growth Division; he was also an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
.

Easterly then worked at the

Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development until 2003, when he began teaching at New York University.[6]

Academic work

Easterly has worked in many areas of the developing world and some transition economies, most heavily in Africa, Latin America, and Russia.

Easterly is skeptical toward many of the trends that are common in the field of foreign aid. In

sustainable growth. He reviewed the many “panaceas” that have been tried since World War II but had little to show for their efforts. Among them is one that has recently come back into fashion: debt relief. That remedy has been tried many times before, he argues, with negative results more often than positive, and calls for a more scrutinizing process.[7]

In The White Man's Burden (the title refers to

utopian, while Searchers are more realistic as they focus—following Karl Popper
—on piecemeal interventions. Searchers, according to Easterly, have a much better chance to succeed.

In

dictators. Development organizations often side with abusive autocrats by lauding their development achievements (which, economic analysis shows, cannot be credited to leaders[10]) and ignoring their dismal human rights
records. The first step, Easterly argues, is to at least open a debate, a discussion about why the rights of the poor matter.

Sachs responded to Easterly's arguments, leading to a prolonged debate.

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has praised Easterly for analysis of the problems of foreign aid, but criticized his sweeping debarment of all plans, lacking the due distinctions between different types of problems, and not giving the aid institutions credit for understanding the points he is making.[12] Easterly responded to Sachs in a letter in Foreign Policy in January 2014.[13]

Easterly has also produced a critical review of, and received a rebuttal from,

Cambridge University economist Ha-Joon Chang, to which he offered a counter-rebuttal.[14][15]

Easterly's work has been discussed in media outlets such as

Publications

Book section

Three co-edited books, and more than 60 articles in refereed economics journals.

See also

References

  1. ^ A computable general equilibrium model of Mexico with portfolio balances : with application to devaluation.
  2. ^ NYU Development Research Institute
  3. ^ ""The Tyranny of Experts" on William Easterly's website". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
  4. ^ The Manhattan Institute Announces Shortlist for Hayek Book Prize, January 29, 2015
  5. ^ Easterly, William (2016). "Stereotypes Are Poisoning American Politics". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
  6. ^ Curriculum Vita, William Easterly, April 3, 2013
  7. ^ "Think Again: Debt Relief, Foreign Policy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-18. Retrieved 2006-08-21.
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  9. ^ A Modest Proposal, A Review of "The End of Poverty."
  10. ^ http://www.nyudri.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Easterly-Pennings-2014-Jan-Leaders-and-Growth.pdf[dead link]
  11. ^ "The Big Aid Debate is over". 4 October 2013.
  12. ^ Amartya Sen, The Man Without a Plan, Foreign Affairs. March/April 2006
  13. ^ Easterly, William (January 23, 2014). "Aid Amnesia: Jeffrey Sachs has gone down the rabbit hole on the aid debate. He doesn't even remember what it was all about". foreignpolicy.com. Apparently there is nobody left, not even Sachs himself, to defend the case for aid as the engine of development in the poorest countries . . . .
  14. ^ Easterly, William. "The Anarchy of Success | William Easterly". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  15. ^ Rossant, James. "'The Anarchy of Success' | William Easterly". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  16. ^ "NYU Homepage for William Easterly". Retrieved 2006-06-26.
  17. ^ "Brookings Trade Forum: 2004". 30 November 2001.
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External links

  1. ^ "Aid Watch". Development Research Institute. Retrieved 2020-04-28.