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The White Man's Burden

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Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 06:37 PM

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Category POLITICAL ECONOMICS

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SKU LA-8548

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From one of the worldâ€™s best-known development economistsâ€”an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the Westâ€™s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Manâ€™s Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunchâ€”a brilliant and blistering indictment of the Westâ€™s economic policies for the worldâ€™s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.