ECON 350 blog

Questions to ponder for Easterly: P.T. Bauer, the development economist, wrote in 1993: "[Aid] promotes an unquestioning attitude. It ...

Mosquito nets becoming dresses . What would Easterly say about this? Here he is . Relatedly, who's helped by these microchips ? Why a...

If you are considering a job in the development area, there are some fine recommendations by Alanna Shaikh . Most of you are doing some of ...

Here are some of the things we used today in class: Starbucks' Red Card , and its criticism by Easterly. The video of Dambisa Moyo. I a...

I mentioned this in class today but it bothered me I could not remember the whole quote. From an interview in Reason magazine in Dec. 1974...

Not directly related to this blog, but one of our former students, Laura Morris, is overseas with her husband who provides medical care to d...