The White Man's Burden by William Easterly

The White Man's Burden by William Easterly

From one of the world's best-known development economists--an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world.

"Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World." --BusinessWeek

In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch--a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.

The Elusive Search for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Attempts to Help the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good are two books written by William Easterly. He is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. He is a professor of economics at New York University (in collaboration with Africa House), codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Elusive Search for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Attempts to Help the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good are two books written by William Easterly. He is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. He is a professor of economics at New York University (in collaboration with Africa House), codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT and a past president of the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). He is a Ford Foundation Professor of Economics in the department of economics at MIT.

Michael works as a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago. Michael works as a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago. Edward Miguel is an Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center of Evalulations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthor of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Countries with Raymond Fisman. Jonathan Morduch is a professor of public policy and economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

He is the coauthor of Microfinance Economics (MIT Press) and Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Survive on $2 a Day. Michael works as a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago.

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ISBN 13	9780143038825
ISBN 10	0143038826
Title	The White Man's Burden
Author	William Easterly
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2007-02-27
Number of pages	448
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