William Easterly famous quotes

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.
-- William Easterly

#Development #Poverty #Remember

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 classic Macroeconomics in Emerging Markets, he has surpassed even himself. He uniquely fills the gap between rich-country-obsessed macro- and micro-obsessed developing-country analysis. No student of the macroeconomics of development will henceforward be able to do without this book.
-- William Easterly

#Country #Book #Long

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.
-- William Easterly

#Rich #Poor

There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.
-- William Easterly

#Children #Book #Medicine

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
-- William Easterly

#Ideas #Tragedy #Tough

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.
-- William Easterly

#Priorities #Digging #Holes

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.
-- William Easterly

#Gdp #Numbers #Rights

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.
-- William Easterly

#Thinking #Practice #Democracy

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.
-- William Easterly

#Able #Crisis #Economist

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Remember you love writing.  It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t.  If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.