The Tyranny of Experts 

I'm amazed at why people laugh when he is talking about serious human rights violations by institutional organisations

Poverty is not about the shortage of experts but about shortage of rights! Rightly said Professor!

Excellent presentation. The cornerstone of liberty is the rule of law and property rights. Easterly's theme that there's not a shortage of plans or experts, but a shortage of individual rights in addressing poverty, is spot on.

What a wonderful topic and life endeavor, what an amazing speaker. Thanks for sharing!

“What this really calls into the question is the notion that we need “independent central banks” to protect us from irresponsible politicians. If anything, it’s irresponsible central bankers that we need protection from. But for as long as central banks and governments are able to shift the blame onto each other, the technocrats will always have the upper hand. So, perhaps the time has come to slay the dragon - central banks themselves.”

Muhammad Yunis is or could be argued a technocrat but he has done wonders with micro loans. So small solutions in education and business do help though in minuscules.

I wish I could see the slides he is showing.

am watching from uganda. it was such a good analysis

Really hard to fight human rights violations at the same time you are poor and offering any POSSIBLE technical solutions to a major global crisis soon enough to save many lives. Of course there is alays the danger in doing so that some will see it as a future present and possible gain for only themselves while getting rid of their enemies to doing so at the very same time and so they will try to shoot the ideas down until later.

@1:03:37 I do not get it why he suddenly changed his system of thought and made the apple to orange analogy regarding brain drain! A poverty stricken person leaves home seeking the basics of life, while the rich person of the wealthy nations goes to other nations for ambitions. The poverty stricken person can hardly gain adequate human rights when traveling for usually hard labor work, while the rich ones sustain their rights and most often even gain extra attension and status depending on where they go. The poor ones are forced to migrate for work, the rich one is enticed to and invited to and supported to do so. The poor one is rushed into moving out with not enough time or wisdom to assess the outcomes, the rich one makes calculated risk and most often rewarded beforehand. In poor communities, when a person is lost, a lot is lost because people mostly have only themselves to rely on and keep busy with, the rich communities are at such abundance of connections and services that a person left buys more time for others otherly pastimes. When the brain or muscle figures of poor communities are gone that is the bee absent from the polination cycle, when a rich one goes to another country to gain more personal benefits, that is the cherry on top of the cherry cake having gone missing.

Yes the Aid industry can be heavy handed & insensitive but you can say that in less than 416 pages.

Reminds me of the CDC

Perhaps this sounds unfair to many here. But perhaps we should be trying to focus more on slowing down our own economies. I am actually very scared about what is going to happen when the developing world becomes the worlds No1 consumer, eventually far overtaking the western worlds level of consumerism since the population in the developing world is far greater than that of the western world. I don't believe the world can sustain this level of consumption for long. One of my greatest fears is the future of bio fuels. Oil will become too expensive and difficult to extract, biofuels are already paving the way but few have considered the consequences. There will be mass mono crop farming which will further destroy nature (as mono cropping already does). Mankind need to focus on restoration of nature and stop talking about sustainability when it comes to the land and the air quality. We already know that it took equatorial zones to survive the ice age but we do not realise how important it is to have nature thriving as we exit the ice age. If the planet becomes unbearably hot over the next 10,000 years (possibly sooner) we may have to rely on zones closer to the polar regions to survive the planets hot period that is setting in fast as the last ice melts. I believe it is imperative that we restore nature so as to guarantee the best possible soil conditions and a thriving nature as forests recede towards the polar regions. Unfortunately, at some point in the future there will inevitably be an armageddon as the planets population battle to survive the forthcoming inter-glacial period.

People could take a great deal more responsibility into their own hands when it comes to actually understanding certain situations. People tend to take sides or go with public opinion rather than even try to understand the situation. Rather than debate, discuss and try to find answers and solutions people tend to go with the flow or quickly jump to take sides, then they tend to bully others who either take the opposing side or those who question the argument and want to look for better answers and solutions. We have a misused educational system, our educational system is full of holes. We could do much better to teach such things as debate, mental health, self reliance, communication skills, morals and ethics. When it comes to things such as racial hatred we may want to consider our internal conflicts between natural instinct and what is happening all around us in the modern world. In this case i want to bring light to territorial instincts. All animals posses natural instincts such as finding food, finding shelter, finding a mate and protecting themselves. If we could educate people about their natural instincts and how they influence us or possibly even conflict within the modern world we may better understand some of our emotions and actions. For example people may actually show hatred to others or even join groups to satisfy their internal territorial instincts. If we better understood this territorial instinct within us we may be better equipped to deal with emotions that sometimes drive hatred toward others. We also need to realise that this can happen between same race and on many different levels, we know that some people are very precious when it comes to needing their space, these emotions can come out among friends, during relationships, during sporting events, between neighbors, between other classes or other towns between the east and west, the north and south and obviously during war, just to mention a few examples. Yet we have never been educated as to why this happens and as to how we can better understand and control these emotions. Not only could education awaken people as to how to deal with these emotions but it may also be able to teach people how to better distinguish between what is actually racial hatred and what might just be a fight or discussion gone bad between people. For example, you may be having an argument with a neighbor whilst other neighbors watch from nearby. This may be a simple argument that has flared up due to various reasons but lets now swap a same race neighbor for one of different race. Any onlooker in the new scenario may assume that the argument is based around racial hatred. Either way, better understanding our natural instincts and and emotions that may be attached could help people to keep their cool when it comes to relations weather it be within personal relationships, between different races, between neighbors or even in war or sometimes within events leading up to war, just to name a few examples. I see this as a huge hole in education and most likely something that children would find interesting and hopefully embrace the lessons to be learned. Within school systems we could learn a great deal more about how to better understand our natural instincts, mental health, self sufficiency, community and family life. If we can be more at peace with our own lives and find satisfaction, we may then in turn find the space to support others, hopefully triggering or resulting in a chain reaction within human consciousness.

Easterly talks as if he is controlled by an invisible skilled ventriloquist.

Mala is my real enemy amongst many others .. Atulmisra are you doing needful immediately? Urgency reqd USA Virna India

"The Tyranny of Experts" doesn't offer a single practical suggestion for helping poor countries and it's as interesting as cardboard - DON'T BUY!

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1.5 hr of proof of how fragile capitalism is