The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor [Written by William Easterly]

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor Author: William Easterly Narrator: Chris Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: In this "bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away for generations. In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how our traditional antipoverty tactics have both trampled the freedom of the world's poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in our traditional approach and offers new principles for Western agencies and developing countries alike: principles that, because they are predicated on respect for the rights of poor people, have the power to end global poverty once and for all.