The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0735PNCM7 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Lean Development Economist" In 2011, Eric Ries made a big splash in Silicon Valley with his book “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.” He defines “startup” rather loosely (“an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty”) and encourages organizations of all sizes to avoid creating elaborate business plans and instead work “to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust…” This is almost precisely the same argument made by NYU economist William . You're doing it wrong I picked this up as a follow-up to Easterly's earlier "Elusive Quest for Growth". While the earlier work was a studied examination of the (in)effectiveness of development policies in the developing world, this one is more of a polemic on the idea of development as a means to eliminating poverty. Easterly's approach is more critical than constructive, but is engagingly written and presented. It is, however, only one side of the argument ("academic cat fight" is closer to the mark) over development, charity, investment, and poverty in developing nations. It really is a must-read for anyone with an i. Charles said Good Explanation Of Why The UN, Bill Gates, and Bob Geldof All Have It Wrong. “The White Man’s Burden,” despite its inflammatory title, is a measured analysis of the ability of the West to help alleviate poverty in the rest of the world. The title is actually ironic, for the book concludes, in essence, that most of the burden the West has taken on has led to no improvement and much waste. This book is a companion, in many ways, to Easterly’s later book “The Tyranny of Experts.” It also has much in common with other books focusing on both the Great Divergence and the lifting of the poor out of poverty, in particular Angus Deaton’s re
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.