The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor - Couverture rigide

Easterly, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465031250 ISBN 13 : 9780465031252

Editeur : Basic Books, 2014

Synopsis

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right “expert” solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with “benevolent autocrats,” leaving dictators with yet more power to violate the rights of the poor.

In The Tyranny of Experts, economist William Easterly, bestselling author of The White Man's Burden, traces the history of the fight against global poverty, showing not only how these tactics have trampled the individual freedom of the world's poor, but how in doing so have suppressed a vital debate about an alternative approach to solving poverty: freedom. Presenting a wealth of cutting-edge economic research, Easterly argues that only a new model of development—one predicated on respect for the individual rights of people in developing countries, that understands that unchecked state power is the problem and not the solution —will be capable of ending global poverty once and for all.

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À propos de l?auteur

William Easterly is a professor of economics at New York University and a director of NYU's award-winning Development Research Institute. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0465031250
• ISBN 13: 9780465031252
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 416