William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, which won the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Development Cooperation Award. He is the author of two books:
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good (2006) and
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001). The former won the FA Hayek Award from the Manhattan Institute. He has also published more than 60 peer-reviewed academic articles. He was named in 2008 and 2009 among the
Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine, and ranks among the top 100 most cited academic economists worldwide. His writings have appeared or been covered in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN, PBS, ABC, and other media outlets. He was Co-Editor of the
Journal of Development Economics and wrote and directed the
Aid Watch blog. He is Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow BREAD and nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. He is also the
11th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio.
William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, which won the 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge in Development Cooperation Award. He is the author of two books: The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good (2006) and The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001). The former won the FA Hayek Award from the Manhattan Institute. He has also published more than 60 peer-reviewed academic articles. He was named in 2008 and 2009 among the Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals by Foreign Policy Magazine, and ranks among the top 100 most cited academic economists worldwide. His writings have appeared or been covered in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN, PBS, ABC, and other media outlets. He was Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and wrote and directed the Aid Watch blog. He is Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow BREAD and nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. He is also the 11th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio.
