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Western aid and Ebola
Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation explores the unintended consequences of Western aid on the Ebola crisis. President Obama is sending military personnel and $750 million to Liberia and other…
William Easterly
American development economist
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Re: ‘celebrity musicians can’t feed the world’
Mitch’s earlier post of economist William Easterly’s Slate column made me think of one celebrity musician who gets it. I’ve earlier put U2 frontman Bono’s recent comments on entrepreneurship up…
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Slate readers get a dose of reality
Economist William Easterly explains in a Slate column why “celebrity musicians can’t feed the world.” Insulting stereotypes of Africans are at the heart of why celebrity famine relief gets the…
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The negative impact of African aid
Anyone who remembers William Easterly‘s 2009 Pope Lecture at N.C. State University will find nothing surprising about the latest Barron’s cover story, in which Paul Theroux discusses the problems caused…
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N.C. State’s annual Pope lecture to feature economist Zingales
This forum has noted on more than one occasion an interesting book from University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales titled A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of…
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Comparing Robert McNamara and Obama
In this WSJ piecetoday, Bret Stephens draws a very useful parallel between the late Robert McNamara and our Beloved Leader — “whiz kids” who are so certain they know the…
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Today’s Carolina Journal Online features
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with New York University economist William Easterly about the importance of freedom in fighting global poverty. David Bass’ guest Daily…
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More on Dambisa Moyo’s new book
I linked the other day to a TIME blurb about the new book Dead Aid, which questions popular assumptions about the value of foreign economic development aid, echoing the concerns…
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A new book that seems to agree with Easterly
A brief review in TIME of the new book Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo includes the following: That $1 trillion-plus the U.S. has poured into Africa? Mostly useless. All that…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
It would be hard to read much about the current economic mess without encountering the name Keynes or the word ?Keynesian.? Who was this fellow Keynes? Why is he important…
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Edwards returning to the poverty trail
It looks as if former Sen. John Edwards plans to return to his old poverty shtick ? including the same old incorrect pronouncements on the topic. It would be nice…
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Easterly?s speech on freedom and poverty
If a recent Carolina Journal exclusive piqued your interest in William Easterly?s Pope Lecture on the importance of freedom in fighting global poverty, you might enjoy watching the entire presentation.…