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**William Easterly** is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co- director of the NYU Development Research Institute. He is the author of several books on global politics and economics, including _The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good_ (winner of the FA Hayek Award). His writing has appeared in the _New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Review of Books_ , and _Washington Post_. _Foreign Policy_ magazine named him among the Top 100 Global Public Intellectuals. He lives in New York.