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Articles By: Tim Layton
William Easterly’s Burden
In his book The White Man’s Burden William Easterly spends about 384 pages criticizing aid agencies, the structure of aid-giving, and his nemesis Jeffrey Sachs. Throughout the fairly entertaining chapters Easterly provides a rather bleak image of the world of foreign aid distribution. Anyone who has worked in or studied international development should be fully aware that these criticisms and [...]
One Reason the Financial Crash is Good for America
Hugh Nibley once shared with the BYU student body a quote from Arthur C. Clarke: “No nation can afford to divert its ablest men into such essentially non-creative, and occasionally parasitic, occupations as law, advertising, and banking.” What did Nibley and Clarke mean? Our nation’s ability to produce talented engineers, economists, and scientists is inextricably linked with our national security [...]