William Easterly

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William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957 in Morgantown , West Virginia ) is an American economist . He is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-Director of the NYU Development Research Institute. He is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development . Easterly is co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics , Journal of Economic Growth , Journal of Comparative Economics, and Journal of Development Economics . He also ran the Aid Watch blog until 2011 .

Life

Easterly grew up in Bowling Green , Ohio and received a BA from Bowling Green State University (1979) and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT (1985). From 1985 to 2001 he worked as a researcher at the World Bank and from 1992 to 1995 he was professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies . Since 2003 he has been a professor at New York University.

job

Easterly's research interests are development economics and economic growth especially in Africa , macroeconomics in developing countries , political economy , institutional economics and development aid .

Easterly presented his critical work in his books The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006) Evaluation of development aid to a wide audience; the books were translated into 9 and 13 languages ​​respectively.

In The Elusive Quest for Growth , Easterly analyzes post-war development aid and concludes that it was barely effective. Many countries have grown economically without substantial financial aid, while many of the countries that have not developed have received substantial aid. In The White Man's Burden , Easterly explores the question of why, despite the obvious failures and ineffectiveness, development aid is not losing its popularity. In the book, he is critical of Live8 , Bob Geldof , Bono and the book The End of Poverty by his colleague Jeffrey Sachs . Easterly suspects that modern development aid would not have broken away from the philosophy of the colonial era , in which the colonial powers made plans to help the people of the developing world. This top-down approach of what he calls "planners" is utopian and less successful than the alternative bottom-up or "seeker" perspective, which is limited to small interventions. Easterly calls for a stricter evaluation of development aid projects.

Works

  • The Tyranny of Experts
  • What Works in Development? Thinking Big and Thinking Small (Ed., With Jessica Cohen). Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
  • Reinventing Foreign Aid (Ed.). MIT Press, 2008.
  • The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good . Penguin Press, 2006. - German translation: We're saving the world to death: For more professional management in the fight against poverty . Campus Verlag, 2006.
  • The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure and Fiscal Adjustment in Latin America (Ed., With L. Serven). Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics . MIT Press, 2001.
  • Crecimiento Económico (Ed., With M. Aparicio). Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogota, Colombia, 1995.
  • Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance (Eds., With C. Rodriguez and K. Schmidt-Hebbel). New York: Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Easterly, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Easterly, William Russell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Morgantown, West Virginia