Author

Books by William Easterly

William Easterly is an economist and professor at New York University who spent sixteen years at the World Bank before leaving in 2001, partly over disagreements about aid effectiveness. He is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth (2001), an earlier critique of development economics that gained wide attention, and The Tyranny of Experts (2014), which represents the fullest statement of his rights-based critique of technocratic development. He co-directs NYU's Development Research Institute. Easterly is a polarizing figure in development economics — critics regard him as too hostile to aid and too credulous about markets; supporters see him as willing to follow the evidence.