William Easterly | |
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| Born | September 7, 1957 |
| Education | Bowling Green State University (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Political economy, International development |
| School or tradition | Chicago School |
| Doctoral advisor | Lance J. Taylor[1] |
| Influences | Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) is an American economist specializing in economic development. He is a professor of economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and co-director of NYU’s Development Research Institute.[2] He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) of Duke University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
Easterly is the author of three books: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001); The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), which won the 2008 Hayek Prize; and The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014),[3] which was a finalist for the 2015 Hayek Prize.[4]
- ^ A computable general equilibrium model of Mexico with portfolio balances : with application to devaluation.
- ^ NYU Development Research Institute
- ^ ""The Tyranny of Experts" on William Easterly's website". Archived from the original on 2016-03-25. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ^ The Manhattan Institute Announces Shortlist for Hayek Book Prize, January 29, 2015