Angus Deaton: «lDevelopment aid is cynical» – Swiss Television SRF
14 Sep 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, international economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
26 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, P.T. Bauer, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
Most of the world today has better than the best life expectancy anywhere in 1950. The worst life expectancy today anywhere is better than most of the world in 1950 @oxfam
09 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: life expectancies, The Great Escape
William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo: Emerging economies in 2013
20 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Bill Easterly, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: overseas aid
The contributions of William Easterly
24 May 2016 Leave a comment
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William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
13 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
Bill Easterly at the Asian Development Bank
20 Jun 2014 Leave a comment
in Bill Easterly, development economics, growth miracles Tags: Bill Easterly, East Asian Tigers
— United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, a body that has long distinguished itself by promoting all the bad ideas that stifle both trade and development.
— But any Asian leader who hasn’t already figured out that trade should be mainstream after Asia’s world-historical trade explosion is past the point of rescue anyway.
— Successful trade booms (and the accompanying infrastructure demand) come about through letting free market entrepreneurs run wild to find things foreigners want rather than consulting ADB bureaucrats on designing a “national development strategy.”
— All of which goes to show that the ADB’s fundamental problem is that it needs advice from successful Asian countries more than they need advice from it.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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