Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.

Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.

William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. He is Professor of Economics at New York University (Joint with Africa House), Codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

"A highly readable and iconoclastic treatment of the determinants of economic growth." Richard N. Cooper Foreign Affairs "It is impossible to convey the depth and range of The Elusive Quest for Growth." Bruce Bartlett The Wall Street Journal "It is impossible to convey the depth and range of The Elusive Quest for Growth." Bruce Bartlett Wall Street Journal