VIDEO: New Directions in Development
These videos come from DRI’s annual conference at the Cooper Union on March 4, 2011. Speakers included DRI co-directors Bill Easterly and Yaw Nyarko, Yale’s Chris Blattman, NYU Economics’ Raquel...
View ArticleVIDEO: Professor Easterly Speaks at the Carnegie Council
Why is honesty so important? Professor Easterly discussed this cardinal value in his own career, and in the context of international development, with Julia Kennedy and Devin T. Stewart at the Carnegie...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Professor Easterly reviews Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow for the Financial Times: There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That...
View ArticlePublic Forum: Steve Forbes Speaks In Defense of the Free Market at its Moment...
Join us for a Public Forum with Steve Forbes, who will speak “In Defense of the Free Market at its Moment of Crisis,” with Bill Easterly as moderator. When: Thursday, February 23rd, 4:00pm – 5:30pm...
View ArticleHow I Would Not Lead the World Bank
Bill Easterly writes for Foreign Policy: I am gratified by the widespread support that my non-nomination for World Bank president has received. My quest to help end poverty has led me to the ends of...
View ArticleEasterly and Banerjee on World Bank Nominee Jim Kim
The new US nominee for World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, has some surprising opinions on the effects of economic growth. The BBC World Business Report interviewed both Bill Easterly and Abhijit...
View ArticleFalse Dichotomies: National vs Humane Development
By Gregg Gonsalves Lant Pritchett—a Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School—has been leading a campaign against the election of Jim Kim to the World Bank...
View ArticleHow much do Europeans account for economic development?
From the Wall Street Journal, by Daniel Lippman: European settlement had a longstanding positive effect on economic development in countries that were colonies, notwithstanding the terrible effects of...
View ArticleAdam Smith Award winner for 2013 announced
Just announced: The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is proud to announce that the Adam Smith Award winner for 2013 will be William Easterly of New York University. APEE describes the...
View ArticleDoes Aid Promote Autocracy?
This is NOT the Nobel Symposium panel with Jeff Sachs and others, for which the video isn’t available yet. It IS a 3-minute clip of a talk Bill gave at the Swedish think tank Timbro while he was in...
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