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William Easterly

William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University, is Co-Director of the Development Research Institute and author of 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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There is a reason why economists tend to believe in markets.
William Easterly
I have been troubled by Paul Collier’s research and policy advocacy for some time. In this essay he goes even further in directions I argued were dangerous in his previous work. Collier...
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