The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

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“Bracingly iconoclastic.” —New York Times Book Review
In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the “expert approved” top-down method to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers in search of autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the liberty of the arena’s poor and suppressed an important debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. On this masterful work, Easterly reveals the basic errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they’re predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the facility to finish global poverty once and for all.

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