9781541675674-1541675673-Tyranny of Experts

Tyranny of Experts

ISBN-13: 9781541675674
ISBN-10: 1541675673
Edition: 1
Author: William Easterly
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Paperback 432 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781541675674
ISBN-10: 1541675673
Edition: 1
Author: William Easterly
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Paperback 432 pages

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Tyranny of Experts (ISBN-13: 9781541675674 and ISBN-10: 1541675673), written by authors William Easterly, was published by Basic Books in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Development & Growth (Economics, Economic Conditions, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development) books. You can easily purchase or rent Tyranny of Experts (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Development & Growth books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.61.

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In this "bracingly iconoclastic" book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations.



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 approach 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 seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.

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