The Tyranny Of Experts Economists, Dictators, And The...

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, a strong title followed by an effective introduction. William Easterly is a Professor of economics at New York University and Co-Director of the NYU development Research Institute also a previous World Bank Group employee. Easterly is an expert whose work The Tyranny of Experts is set to criticize experts. Easterly starts his book off with a story about twenty thousand local farmers in Ohio whose farms were burnt down and animals shot to death by soldiers to make room for commercial forestry, as they watched their family farms burn they were held at gun point by the soldiers and told â€Å"never come back† and â€Å"the land is no longer yours†. Of course there was a point to this story; if this had happened it would have caused political unrest and outrage among citizens it would have been in the media for days and covered worldwide. Although according to Easterly it did happen not in Ohio but in Mubende Uganda, and furthermore the incident was supposedly connected to a forestry project led by the World Bank who promised to investigate the issue but never did. In Easterly’s view this example is what is wrong with development; it is a top-down based approach that is technocratic and distant to the rights and freedom of individuals, all run by a tyranny of experts. Easterly then uses this story to introduce and support his main argument which is showed in this short passage among many: TheShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesMichael Adas for the American Historical Association TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS PHILADELPHIA Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright  © 2010 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2010 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Essays on twentieth century history / edited by Michael Peter Adas for the American Historical Association. p. cm.—(Critical perspectives on the past) Includes bibliographicalRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 PagesAssociated Companies throughout the world Visit us on the World Wide Web at: www.pearsoned.co.uk First published 2007  © Pearson Education Limited 2007 The rights of Joanne Duberley, Phil Johnson and John McAuley to be identified as authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical