William Easterly Quotes

• Recuerden que la ayuda no puede acabar con la pobreza. Sólo un desarrollo propio basado en el dinamismo de los individuos y las empresas en mercados libres puede hacerlo.

  William Easterly

  Development, Poverty, Remember

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

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• We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

  William Easterly

  Thinking, Practice, Democracy

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• The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

  William Easterly

  Rich, Poor, Bureaucrats

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• Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

  William Easterly

  Able, Crisis, Economist

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• When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

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  Priorities, Top Priorities, Digging

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.324, Penguin

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• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  William Easterly

  Children, Book, Medicine

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

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• To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

  William Easterly

  Ideas, Tragedy, Tough

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• If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

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  Rights, Gdp, Numbers

  William Easterly (2014). “A The Tyranny of Experts: How the Fight Against Global Poverty Suppressed Individual Rights”, p.137, Perseus Books Group

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• Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.

  William Easterly

  Country, Book, Rich Countries

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