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William Easterly
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    • Authored Books
      • The White Man’s Burden
      • The Elusive Quest for Growth
    • Edited Books
      • What Works in Development?
      • Reinventing Foreign Aid
      • The Limits of Stabilization
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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Working Papers

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Do Superpowers Have Short and Long Term Consequences For Democracy? - Journal of Comparative Economics, January, 2013

Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War - American Economic Review, Forthcoming, 2012

How I Would Not Lead the World Bank - Foreign Policy, March 5, 2012

The Roots of Hardship - Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2012

The Case of Eskinder Nega - New York Review of Books, January 12, 2012

Review of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow - The Financial Times, November 5, 2011

Benevolent Autocrats by William Easterly, August 2011

World Bank Investigation Commitment Clock - How long has it been since the Bank promised an investigation into Ugandan land grabbing?

PODCAST: Prof. Easterly speaks about development and individual freedoms at the Columbia Tikvah-Hertog Summer Institute. What should we do to end world poverty? Not only do we not know, but that's the wrong question to ask.

RSS Development Research Institute Blog

  • Favorite book of a lifetime
  • “This story is also about you”: Letter from an aid-financed jail
  • The political economy of why your flight is two hours late today
  • For the first time in history we’ve got a perfect advocacy message, but challenges remain
  • Live Twitter Commentary on World Bank’s Dr. Kim Ending World Poverty
  • This is not a satire
  • Is there rigorous evidence that anyone will use rigorous evidence?
  • Corrected development history of the United States
  • The woman who would not shut up
  • A. Lincoln reviews Jeb Bush’s new immigration book

Links

  • Africa House
  • Aid Watch Blog Archive
  • Brookings Institution
  • Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
  • Development Research Institute
  • Journal of Development Economics
  • National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • NYU Department of Economics
  • Twitter Feed

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