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According to Wikipedia, William Russell Easterly is an American economist, specializing in economic development. He is a professor of economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and co-director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development of Duke University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.

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Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions (1997) (5951)
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions (1997) (3221)
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation (1993) (2215)
Fractionalization (2002) (2201)
Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development (2002) (2185)
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006) (2095)
It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models (2001) (1439)
The elusive quest for growth: Economists''adventures and misadventures in the tropics, MIT Press, (2001) (1398)
Inflation Crises and Long-Run Growth (1995) (1323)
Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth (2003) (1201)
The White Man's Burden (2006) (1054)
Fiscal policy and economic growth (1993) (1026)
Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks (1993) (893)
The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development (1999) (885)
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment (2004) (808)
What Have We Learned from a Decade of Empirical Research on Growth? It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models (2001) (788)
Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument ☆ (2007) (777)
Shaken and Stirred: Explaining Growth Volatility (2003) (677)
The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980–1998 (2001) (635)
Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth (2006) (605)
Inflation and the Poor (1999) (598)
Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States (2000) (597)
The Elusive Quest for Growth (2001) (524)
How the Millennium Development Goals are Unfair to Africa (2007) (501)
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid (2008) (485)
What Did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans (2002) (479)
Good policy or good luck (1993) (470)
New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar&Apos;S "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000) (2003) (444)
Can Institutions Resolve Ethnic Conflict?* (1999) (431)
The cartel of good intentions: The problem of bureaucracy in foreign aid (2002) (429)
Life During Growth (1999) (418)
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? (2006) (407)
The Ghost of Financing Gap: Testing the Growth Model Used in the International Financial Institutions (1999) (405)
How much do distortions affect growth (1993) (397)
National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal (2004) (336)
How Did Highly Indebted Poor Countries Become Highly Indebted? Reviewing Two Decades of Debt Relief (1999) (330)
Has Latin America's Post-Reform Growth Been Disappointing? (1996) (326)
Redistributive Public Employment (1998) (311)
Reliving the 1950s: the big push, poverty traps, and takeoffs in economic development (2005) (306)
The economics of the government budget constraint (1990) (296)
The tyranny of experts : economists, dictators, and the forgotten rights of the poor (2013) (296)
Can the West Save Africa? (2008) (295)
The European origins of economic development (2012) (257)
Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom (2001) (242)
The Soviet Economic Decline (1995) (227)
Are Aid Agencies Improving? (2007) (223)
Institutions: top down or bottom up? (2008) (217)
Inflation and Growth: In Search of a Stable Relationship (1996) (214)
Rhetoric versus Reality: The Best and Worst of Aid Agency Practices (2011) (213)
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War (2010) (210)
The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits and Growth in Latin America (2003) (207)
Public sector deficits and macroeconomic performance (1996) (203)
The Search for the Key: Aid, Investment, and Policies in Africa (1999) (194)
New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's (2003) (190)
Africa's Growth Tragedy (1996) (185)
Marginal income tax rates and economic growth in developing countries (1992) (184)
When is Fiscal Adjustment an Illusion? (1999) (184)
The Politics of Electoral Systems (2007) (183)
New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting 'Aid, Policies, and Growth' (2003) (182)
Troubles with the neighbours: Africa's problem, Africa's opportunity (1998) (171)
On "Good" Politicians and "Bad" Policies : Social Cohesion, Institutions, and Growth (2000) (165)
FISCAL DEFICITS AND MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1993) (162)
The Political Economy of Growth Without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan (2001) (143)
Was Development Assistance a Mistake ? (2008) (135)
Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment: New Evidence (2002) (132)
The Effect of IMF and World Bank Programs on Poverty (2000) (130)
Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development* (2003) (127)
Economic stagnation, fixed factors, and policy thresholds (1994) (124)
The Ghost of Financing Gap: How the Harrod-Domar Growth Model Still Haunts Development Economics (1997) (118)
The white man's burden: why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little god (2006) (117)
Reinventing foreign aid (2008) (115)
The Big Push Déjà Vu: A Review of Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2006) (113)
Money Demand and Seignorage-Maximizing Inflation (1992) (113)
The Lost Decades: Explaining Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998 (2006) (112)
The Soviet Economic Decline: Historical and Republican Data (1994) (108)
IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty (2003) (106)
Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment (2005) (105)
Policy, Technology Adoption, and Growth (1994) (104)
Explaining Growth Volatility (2000) (103)
Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa? (2008) (100)
Small States, Small Problems? (1999) (95)
The Cartel of Good Intentions: Bureaucracy vs. Markets in Foreign Aid (2002) (93)
Development, democracy, and mass killings (2006) (89)
Africa's Growth Tragedy: A Retrospective, 1960-89 (1995) (88)
What Works in Development?: Thinking Big and Thinking Small (2010) (87)
Growth Implosions and Debt Explosions: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? (2001) (84)
Planners versus searchers in foreign aid (2006) (84)
The Cartel of Good Intentions (2002) (83)
Is Investment in Africa Too High or Too Low? Macro‐ and Micro‐evidence (2001) (80)
African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations (2010) (78)
Walking Up the Down Escalator: Public Investment and Fiscal Stability (2007) (76)
Inflation's Children: Tales of Crises that Beget Reforms (1996) (75)
The Power of Exports (2009) (74)
When is stabilization expansionary? Evidence from high inflation (1996) (70)
Infrastructure Compression and Public Sector Solvency in Latin America (2002) (69)
Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point (2004) (66)
Explaining Miracles: Growth Regressions Meet the Gang of Four (1994) (61)
What did structural adjustment adjust (2005) (61)
NAFTA and Convergence in North America: High Expectations, Big Events, Little Time (2004) (59)
How Do National Policies Affect Long-Run Growth?: A Research Agenda (1992) (58)
Can Foreign Aid Save Africa (2005) (54)
Chapter 15 National Policies and Economic Growth: A Reappraisal (2005) (52)
Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at Thirty Years of the World Development Report (2008) (51)
Is Investment in Africa Too Low or Too High? Macro and Micro Evidence (1999) (50)
The macroeconomics of public sector deficits : a synthesis (1991) (50)
Policy determinants of growth: survey of theory and evidence (1989) (49)
Design and Reform of Institutions in LDCs and Transition Economies Insitutions: Top Down or Bottom Up? (2008) (46)
Aid and Growth: the Current Debate and Some New Evidence (2006) (45)
The Effect of International Monetary Fund and World Bank Programs on Poverty (1999) (45)
Fiscal adjustment and deficit financing during the debt crisis (1989) (45)
The Trouble with the Sustainable Development Goals (2015) (41)
Growth Implosions, Debt Explosions, and My Aunt Marilyn: Do Growth Slowdowns Cause Public Debt Crises? (1999) (39)
Policy Distortions, Size of Government, and Growth (1989) (38)
An Identity Crisis? Examining IMF Financial Programming (2004) (37)
Financing the storm: macroeconomic crisis in Russia, 1992-93 (1994) (37)
Superpower Interventions and Their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry (2008) (37)
How Did Latin America’s Infrastructure Fare in the era of Macroeconomic Crises? (2002) (36)
Do superpower interventions have short and long term consequences for democracy (2013) (35)
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (2007) (34)
Chapter 14. The Political Economy of Growth without Development: A Case Study of Pakistan (2003) (34)
Life During Growth: International Evidence on Quality of Life and Per Capita Income (1999) (33)
Growth in Ethiopia : Retrospect and Prospect (2007) (30)
The Tyranny of Experts (2014) (29)
ACCUMULATION: STYLIZED FACTS AND GROWTH MODELS (2001) (28)
Globalization, Poverty, and All That: Factor Endowment versus Productivity Views (2007) (27)
National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates (2011) (27)
How to Assess the Needs for Aid? The Answer: Don't Ask. (2005) (26)
The Cartel of Good Intentions: Markets vs. Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid (2002) (25)
A consistency framework for macroeconomic analysis (1989) (24)
Volatility and Macroeconomic Paradigms for Rich and Poor (2001) (24)
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes (2019) (22)
Progress by consent: Adam Smith as development economist (2019) (20)
Walking up the Down Escalator (2012) (17)
Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders (2020) (17)
Globalization, Inequality, and Development: The Big Picture (2004) (17)
Big Hits in Manufacturing Exports and Development (2009) (16)
Channels from Globalization to Inequality: Productivity World versus Factor World (2005) (16)
The Man without a Plan: Can Foreign Aid Work? (2006) (15)
Arti…cial States (2006) (14)
The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations (2016) (14)
What Works in Development (2009) (13)
The Role of Growth Slowdowns and Forecast Errors in Public Debt Crises (2012) (13)
Why is Africa Marginal in the World Economy (1996) (13)
Service as a major source of growth in Russia and other former Soviet states (1994) (13)
Economic policy and economic growth (1991) (12)
The utopian nightmare (2005) (12)
The determinants of economic success: luck and policy (1993) (11)
The European origins of economic development (2016) (10)
Foreign aid for scoundrels (2010) (10)
Modeling the macroeconomic requirements of policy reforms (1990) (8)
How Much Do Leaders Explain Growth ? An Exercise in Growth Accounting (2014) (8)
Does Foreign Aid Add Up (2001) (8)
Was Development Assistance a Mistake? (2012) (7)
The Big Push Déjà Vu (2012) (7)
The macroeconomics of the public sector deficit : the case of Colombia (1991) (7)
Democratic Accountability in Development: The Double Standard (2010) (7)
An ivory tower analysis of real world poverty Paul Collier (2007) (7)
Superpower Interventions and Their Consequences for Democracy (2008) (6)
The joys and sorrows of openness: A review essay (2000) (6)
How, and how not, to stop AIDS in Africa. (2007) (6)
The Widening Gyre: The Dynamics of Rising Public Debt and Falling Growth 1 (2004) (5)
The Wild Ride of the Ruble (1996) (5)
HOW MUCH DOES POLICY AFFECT GROWTH (1992) (5)
Troubles with the Neighbours: Africas Problem, Africas Opportunity (1970) (5)
The Lamentable Return of the Big Push in Economic Development (2005) (5)
The poor man's burden (2009) (5)
THE ECONOMICS OF THE GOVERN9MENT BUDGET CONSTRAINT (1990) (4)
Transition 5 (4) (1994) (4)
Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking Whyhasforeignaidhadso (2001) (4)
Synthesis and pharmacological properties of some fluorine-containing amide derivatives. (1965) (4)
The association of policies and growth with repeated 4 IMF and World Bank adjustment loans (2004) (3)
The ideology of development (2007) (3)
Synthesis and anti-inflammatory activity of fluorinated benzamides. (1971) (3)
Free Markets and Economic Development (2009) (3)
SESSION 2A: VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (2001) (3)
Antifungal Activity of Some Amides of Dichloroacetaldehyde and Bromal (1961) (3)
Inequality and Development : The Big Picture (2004) (3)
MACROECONOMIC AND GROWTH POLICIES (2007) (3)
The war on terror vs. the war on poverty (2016) (3)
Comment on: “Latin America in the rear view mirror” (2005) (3)
Reply to Brendan Beare (2008) (2)
A computable general equilibrium model of Mexico with portfolio balances : with application to devaluation (1985) (2)
Benevolent Autocrats 1 (2011) (2)
Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid (2008) (2)
Forthcoming , Journal of Money , Credit , and Banking 1 Inflation and the Poor (2000) (2)
Synthesis and antifungal activity of some amide and urea derivatives of bromal and dichloroacetaldehyde. (1965) (2)
Could Inflation Stabilization Be Expansionary (1995) (2)
Introduction: Searching for the Secrets of Growth (1993) (2)
Development Success: May History Breed Humility (2007) (1)
Why Bill Gates Hates My Book (2008) (1)
The happiness wars Ed Diener Daniel Kahneman (2011) (1)
Planners versus Searchers in Foreign Aid. Asian Development Review, Vol. 23(2), pp. 1-35 (2006) (1)
Barren Land. (Forum) (2002) (1)
The Final Deathblow to Development Planning? A Comparative Book Review (2014) (1)
Financial sector policy in Thailand : a macroeconomic perspective (1990) (1)
The preparation of some amides of bromal. (1959) (1)
The elusive quest for reform [1] (2006) (1)
How much long-run economic growth happens at the country level? (2015) (1)
Economic policies, economic shocks and economic growth (1998) (1)
Preliminary and incomplete Crops , Germs , and Whites : Exploring Historical Determinants of the Kuznets Curve and Causality from Inequality to Development (2003) (0)
1828-01 Easterly.qxd (2004) (0)
Antifungal activity of some amides of dichloraoacetaldehyde and bromal. (1961) (0)
Letter to the editor [12] (2007) (0)
William Easterly replies (2009) (0)
Munich Personal RePEc Archive International Intellectual Property Rights: Effects on Growth, Welfare and Income Inequality (2019) (0)
In Search of the Holy Grail (2003) (0)
Reseña de libro: "Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships", por Mancur OlsonWilliam Easterly (2000) (0)
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” (2015) (0)
Freedom versus coercion in economic development (2018) (0)
Articial States (2006) (0)
Response to reviewers on “The Tyranny of Experts” (2015) (0)
Fiscal Policy, Debt Crises, and Economic Growth (2015) (0)
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier. Oxford University Press (2007), Pp 224. US$28·00, £16·99., ISBN: 0-19531-145-0 (2007) (0)
14320 FISCAL DEFICITS AND MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (2000) (0)
Preliminary Comments welcome Life During Growth October 1997 (1997) (0)
1 Preliminary draft, citation permitted Benevolent Autocrats 1 (2011) (0)
The World Bank research observer 8 (2) (1993) (0)
Review of Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-first Century (2019) (0)
Transition 6 (7-8) (1995) (0)
Services as a Major Source Russia and the other former (1994) (0)
Bank Programs on Poverty reducing the rise in poverty (2001) (0)
Helping poor nations: Beyond good intentions (2003) (0)
The Economics of International Development (2016) (0)
Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development (2002) (0)
Development Doesn't Require Big Government (2008) (0)
Editorial Collaborators (2001) (0)
How much fiscal adjustment is enough? The case of Colombia (1989) (0)
Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2006) (0)
World Bank Economic Review 15 (2), May 2001 (2001) (0)
Managing fiscal risk : new concepts and international experience (2003) (0)
Life During Growth March 1999 (1999) (0)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Social Sector Technical Assistance Credit (2004) (0)
Adjustment Programs and Poverty (2003) (0)

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