Book Review of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, by William Easterly

McKenzie, David

Taylor and Francis

关键词: human rights;    development economics;    poverty;    autocracy;    freedom;   

DOI  :  10.1080/19439342.2014.911771

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Journal of Development Effectiveness book reviews review new books on developmentevaluation and older books from other fields of relevance to our readers. Bill Easterly’s new book is a meandering mélange of anecdotes, parts of Why Nations Fail(Acemoglu and Robinson 2012), and miscellaneous pages from human rights reports,sprinkled with history of economic thought, non sequiturs about one block in New York,finally mixed with some sharper critiques of Thomas Friedman and discussion of thedifficulties of measuring the relationship between autocracy and growth.