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Expertise and its discontents

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  • Loren Lomasky

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William Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts further embellishes his record of subjecting the global aid enterprise to penetrating criticism. This essay endorses the primary thrust of his critique but raises several questions concerning its ramifications: (1) Easterly’s experts are criticized for espousing authoritarian development, but a more charitable interpretation places them on the side of authoritarian development; (2) absence of any reference to the experience of India is puzzling and arguably question-begging; (3) that aid technocrats should afford increased concern to democracy and rights is a central point of the book’s argument, but Easterly does not attend to the wide range of meanings these terms carry in the 21st Century, some of which are antithetical to his own conceptions. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

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  • Loren Lomasky, 2015. "Expertise and its discontents," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 28(4), pages 413-417, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revaec:v:28:y:2015:i:4:p:413-417
    DOI: 10.1007/s11138-015-0325-9
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    Keywords

    Aid; Democracy; Development; Rights; JEL classification; O1; O43; P16;
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    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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