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The Tyranny of Experts (William Easterly)
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor is a nonfiction work of development economics and political criticism by William Easterly. Published in 2014, it challenges the long-standing habit of treating poverty as a technical problem that can be solved by experts, central planners, and powerful institutions acting from above. Easterly argues that this approach has often ignored the rights, choices, and local knowledge of poor people, while also giving legitimacy to authoritarian governments and external actors who claim to know what is best. The book sits at the intersection of economics, history, and political philosophy, and it revisits familiar debates about foreign aid, state power, and freedom. Its purpose is not simply to reject anti-poverty efforts, but to question the assumptions behind them and to insist that development should be judged by whether it improves real lives without sacrificing basic rights.
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#topdowndevelopment #searchersversusplanners #individualrightsandpoverty #authoritarianaid #developmenteconomicscritique #TheTyrannyofExperts
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor is a nonfiction work of development economics and political criticism by William Easterly. Published in 2014, it challenges the long-standing habit of treating poverty as a technical problem that can be solved by experts, central planners, and powerful institutions acting from above. Easterly argues that this approach has often ignored the rights, choices, and local knowledge of poor people, while also giving legitimacy to authoritarian governments and external actors who claim to know what is best. The book sits at the intersection of economics, history, and political philosophy, and it revisits familiar debates about foreign aid, state power, and freedom. Its purpose is not simply to reject anti-poverty efforts, but to question the assumptions behind them and to insist that development should be judged by whether it improves real lives without sacrificing basic rights.
