The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by Easterly, William R.

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.Since the end of World...
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Author: William R. Easterly
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The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by Easterly, William R.

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

€60,45

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

€60,45
Author: William R. Easterly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.

Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work.

In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people--private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors--respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.



Author: William R. Easterly
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 08/02/2002
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.10w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780262550420
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 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. He is Professor of Economics at New York University (Joint with Africa House), Codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.




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