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Professor of Economics; Co-Director of the Development Research Institute
Ph.D. 1985 (Economics), MIT; B.A. 1979 (Economics and Mathematics), Bowling Green State University.

Email:

Personal Homepage: http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/index.html

Research Interests:

Long-run growth and development, Political Economy

Affiliations:

Associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics and a founding editor of the Journal of Economics and Growth of Developing Areas.

Selected Works:

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001).
“Africa’ s Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
“Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
'The White Man’s Burden: How the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Penguin, 2006)

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