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The white man's burden

Why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good

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New York
Kiadó: The Penguin Press
Kiadás helye: New York
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott kemény papírkötés
Oldalszám: 436 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 24 cm x 16 cm
ISBN: 1-59420-037-8
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From one of the world's best-known development economists, an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to reshape the rest of the world in its image
The White Man's Burden is about what William Easterly calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West addressing the first tragedy, there is so shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, William Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second.
So what's going on? The ironies are many: We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude on the inner workings of so-called developing countries through bloated aid bureaucracies like the IMF and World Bank that are accountable to no one for the effects of their prescriptions. We've cheered our victory over communism, but... Tovább

Fülszöveg


From one of the world's best-known development economists, an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West's efforts to reshape the rest of the world in its image
The White Man's Burden is about what William Easterly calls the twin tragedies of global poverty. The first is that so many are seemingly fated to live horribly stunted, miserable lives and die such early deaths. The second is that after fifty years and more than $2.3 trillion in aid from the West addressing the first tragedy, there is so shockingly little to show for it. We'll never solve the first tragedy, William Easterly argues, unless we figure out the second.
So what's going on? The ironies are many: We preach a gospel of freedom and individual accountability, yet we intrude on the inner workings of so-called developing countries through bloated aid bureaucracies like the IMF and World Bank that are accountable to no one for the effects of their prescriptions. We've cheered our victory over communism, but seven decades afi:er Stalin's five-year plans, we're still imposing five-year plans of our own on the wretched of the earth. We take all the credit for the economic success stories of the last fifty years, like South Korea and Taiwan, when in fact we deserve very little of it. We deny all accountability for the fact that despite more than half a trillion dollars poured into Africa and other regions, and one "big new idea" aft:er another, the majority of places in which we've meddled the most are in fact no better off or are even worse off than they were before. Could there be a connection? Could it be that we don't know as much as we think we do about the magic spells that will open the door to the road to wealth?
Absolutely, William Easterly thunders in this sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed Vissza

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William Easterly

William Easterly műveinek az Antikvarium.hu-n kapható vagy előjegyezhető listáját itt tekintheti meg: William Easterly könyvek, művek
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