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During the last hundred years, global poverty has mainly been viewed as a specialized problem that only requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without handling the systemic political factors that created them to begin with. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with "benevolent autocrats", giving dictators with yet more capacity to violate the protection under the law of the indegent. In The Tyranny of Experts, economist William Easterly, best-selling writer of The White Man's Burden, traces the history of the fight global poverty, demonstrating not only how these strategies have trampled the average person liberty of the world's poor, but how in doing this have suppressed a essential debate about an alternative approach to dealing with poverty: freedom. Delivering an abundance of cutting-edge financial research, Easterly argues that only a new style of development - one predicated on respect for the average person rights of individuals in producing countries, that realizes that unchecked state electric power is the condition and not the perfect solution is - will be capable of stopping global poverty once and for all.
