1. Bill Easterly and Jeffrey Sachs have a lively back-and-forth going on the Huffington Post about how best to tackle global poverty (see here and click the links for previous posts). The debate is informative and also fun from an entertainment standpoint.
2. Nice post from Steve Levitt about how free-markets and poverty reduction strategies can co-exist.
3. If you're bored or devoid of fun these days, here you go.
2 comments:
i love the easterly/sachs feud. i'm not sure what their articles achieve other than allowing them to reiterate their opinions on aid/development and their distaste for each other. both write under the pretense of engaging in necessary and constructive debate, yet both are firmly entrenched in their positions. my favorite article was easterly's summary chart of the debate; in an effort to seem understanding and impartial he listed the good points that sachs made, most of which were of the nature "poverty is bad" and "malaria is harfmul." priceless.
i'm not sure how this debate will ever be resolved. it's like east coast vs west coast hip-hop or the bloods vs the crips.
easterly fo' life, nyu reprazent.
agreed on all counts. i also like your closing line: most entertaining and totally appropriate!
you may also like easterly's latest back and forth, this time with Amnesty International (also entertaining, and also chock full of interesting substantive issues):
http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/2009/06/amnesty_international_responds.html
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