William Easterly Quotes
- To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
- When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.
- Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.
- The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.
- If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.
- Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb…