Book Review of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly
Journal of Development Effectiveness book reviews review new books on development evaluation and older books from other fields of relevance to our readers. Bill Easterly’s new book is a meandering mélange of anecdotes, parts of Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu and Robinson 2012), and miscellaneous pages from human rights reports, sprinkled with history of economic thought, non sequiturs about one block in New York, finally mixed with some sharper critiques of Thomas Friedman and discussion of the difficulties of measuring the relationship between autocracy and growth.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | en_US |
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Taylor and Francis
2014-04-23
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| Subjects: | human rights, development economics, poverty, autocracy, freedom, regime type and growth, international migration, property rights, rights of the poor, leadership and growth, technocrats, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20465 |
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| Summary: | Journal of Development Effectiveness book reviews review new books on development
evaluation and older books from other fields of relevance to our readers. Bill Easterly’s new book is a meandering mélange of anecdotes, parts of Why Nations Fail
(Acemoglu and Robinson 2012), and miscellaneous pages from human rights reports,
sprinkled with history of economic thought, non sequiturs about one block in New York,
finally mixed with some sharper critiques of Thomas Friedman and discussion of the
difficulties of measuring the relationship between autocracy and growth. |
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