The Tyranny of Experts

by William Easterly

First published in 2013.

Authored by William Easterly (https://www.williameasterly.org/) - economist, PhD from MIT.

He was at the WB from 1985–2001. This was one of his earliest jobs after PhD.

A walk through his list of papers find that he has worked on aid programs to Africa, Columbia, questions of budget management, and then reams of development work, political economy. He includes “individual rights” as one of his primary fields of interest.

Reading material: 2008Guisoetal_longtermpersistenceofwhatmakesgrowthworkNBER14278.pdf