William Russell Easterly

William Russell Easterly

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About William Russell Easterly

William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is editor of Aid Watch blog, Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is the author of The White Man's Burden: How the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006), The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT, 2001), 3 co-edited books, and 61 articles in refereed economics journals. William Easterly received his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. He was born in West Virginia and is the 8th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio, where he grew up. He spent sixteen years as a Research Economist at the World Bank. He is on the board of the anti-malaria philanthropy, Nets for Life. His work has been discussed in media outlets like the Lehrer Newshour, National Public Radio, the BBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Economist, the New Yorker, Forbes, Business Week, the Financial Times, the Times of London, the Guardian, and the Christian Science Monitor. Foreign Policy magazine inexplicably named him one of the world's Top 100 Public Intellectuals in 2008. His areas of expertise are the determinants of long-run economic growth, the political economy of development, and the effectiveness of foreign aid. He has worked in most areas of the developing world, most heavily in Africa, Latin America, and Russia. William Easterly is an associate editor of the American Economic Journals: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Comparative Economics and the Journal of Economic Growth. He is the baseball columnist for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.

Erratum: The above bio contains one factual mistake due to careless proofreading. He is not really the baseball columnist for L'Osservatore Romano.

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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 Mar 16, 2006

by William Russell Easterly

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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor Mar 7, 2014

by William Easterly , Jonathan Yen , Recorded Books

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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics Aug 2, 2002

by William R. Easterly

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What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small Feb 1, 2010

by William Easterly , Jessica Cohen

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Reinventing Foreign Aid Jul 31, 2008

by William R. Easterly

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傲慢な援助 Sep 17, 2009

by William Russell Easterly; Hirohisa Kohama; Keisuke Orii; YoÌ„ko Tomita

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En busca del crecimiento: Andanzas y tribulaciones de los economistas del desarrollo (Economía) (Spanish Edition) Apr 4, 2003

by William Easterly , Bernardo Kugler

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