The White Mans Burden, William Easterly
The White Mans Burden, William Easterly
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The White Man's Burden
Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Author: William Easterly

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged: 14 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/04/2017

Synopsis

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.

About William Easterly

William Easterly is a professor of economics at New York University and codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute. He is editor of the Aid Watch blog, associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and coeditor of the Journal of Development Economics. In addition, he is the author of The White Man's Burden, The Elusive Quest for Growth, three coedited books, and sixty-one articles in refereed economics journals. His work has been discussed in media outlets like the Lehrer Newshour, National Public Radio, the BBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Economist, and the Christian Science Monitor. In 2008, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the world's Top 100 Public Intellectuals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nicemarmot on June 21, 2007

William Easterly's poorly written challenge to Jeffrey Sachs and the global aid machine entitled, "White Man's Burden," was a selection from my Global Issues and Ethics book club at the Elliot Bay book company. Here is a link to an excellent review of Easterly's book. www.foreignaffairs.org/2006030.......more

Goodreads review by Juha on December 29, 2009

The New York University professor and former World Bank economist, Bill Easterly, provides a scathing critique of the grand plans to transform entire Third World societies through development aid, as promoted by academic and other luminaries such as Jeffrey Sachs and Bono, as well as by many bilater......more

Goodreads review by Frank on June 15, 2011

Overall a pretty disappointing sequel, of sorts, to his earlier "The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics." The latter remains one of my favorite books, examining as it does the long, convoluted history of economic thought on development and how different......more

Goodreads review by Tia on November 15, 2007

I thought I would hate this book, because it is often trotted out by Conservatives/Libertarians as an excuse to leave the developing world to its own devices and abdicate any global responsibility for the poor. The book is a foil for Jeffrey Sachs' cheerleaderish The End of Poverty. Easterly's major......more

Goodreads review by Adrienne on August 31, 2009

If you read The End of Poverty, you should read this book. I love the idea of this book, which is to spend foreign aid money, however much, on individual programs that produce good results even, and perhaps especially, those programs that perform well at the individual, family, and village level. Th......more

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