{"product_id":"9781101218129","title":"The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e In his previous book, \u003ci\u003eThe Elusive Quest for Growth\u003c\/i\u003e, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. \u003ci\u003eThe White Man’s Burden\u003c\/i\u003e is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West’s economic policies for the world’s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106118058224,"sku":"9781101218129","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101218129_p0.jpg?v=1763686675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101218129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}