The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
Jul 2017 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Mike Chamberlain
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In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.
In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man's Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant ...
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William Easterly, the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth, is a professor of economics at New York University and codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is also editor of the Aid Watch blog, associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and coeditor of the Journal of Development Economics.
Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Along with animation and video game characters, Mike performs narration and voices promos for television. He lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.
William Easterly, the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth, is a professor of economics at New York University and codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is also editor of the Aid Watch blog, associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and coeditor of the Journal of D...
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