Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture

Time:

  • 02/12/2015
    18:30
The Institute of Economic Affairs and CQS are pleased to invite you to the Annual IEA Hayek Memorial Lecture. The lecture will be delivered by Professor William Easterly, speaking on the subject “The Tyranny of Experts: Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World’s Poor.”

Lecture (6:30pm for) 6:45pm – 8:15pm

William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute. He is the author of three books: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (March 2014), The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Harm and So Little Good (2006), which won the FA Hayek Award from the Manhattan Institute, and The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001).

He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed academic articles, and has written columns and reviews for the New York TimesWall Street JournalFinancial TimesNew York Review of Books, and Washington Post. He has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and as Director of the blog Aid Watch. He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at BREAD, and nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings. Foreign Policy Magazine named him among the Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals in 2008 and 2009, and Thomson Reuters listed him as one of Highly Cited Researchers of 2014. He was named among 100 Scientist Stars of Twitter by Science magazine. He is also the 11th most famous native of Bowling Green, Ohio.

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