The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by Easterly, William

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143038825)

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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 by Easterly, William

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

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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 by Easterly, William

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: William Easterly
ISBN-10: 0143038826
ISBN-13: 9780143038825
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.56w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/01/2007 pg. 24
Christianity Today 04/01/2011 pg. 64
Books & Culture 09/01/2014 pg. 32
By William Easterly
By William Easterly
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William Easterly is a professor of economics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. He was a senior research economist at the World Bank for more than sixteen years. In addition to his academic work, he has written widely in recent years for The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, and Foreign Policy, among others. He is the author of the acclaimed book The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. He has worked in many areas of the developing world, most extensively in Africa, Latin America, and Russia.

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