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Symposium on Paul Collier
You will find a Collier essay on democracy and development along with numerous comments, including from Bill Easterly and Nancy Birdsall, all courtesy of Boston Review.
Easterly is not happy:
I have been troubled by Paul Collier’s research and policy advocacy for some time. In this essay he goes even further in directions I argued were dangerous in his previous work. Collier wants to de facto recolonize the “bottom billion,” and he justifies his position with research that is based on one logical fallacy, one mistaken assumption, and a multitude of fatally flawed statistical exercises.
Nancy Birdsall suggests that donors support more investment in policing. She also notes:
The economy of sub-Saharan Africa—including Nigeria and South Africa—is smaller than the economy of New York City.
There is much more at the link.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on July 7, 2009 at 05:29 AM in Economics, Political Science | Permalink
Comments
What is the gross personal product of the African American sub-set in New York City?
Posted by: Andrew at Jul 7, 2009 6:09:41 AM
@Andrew
I don't know if we're talking about the city or the metro area, but for the metro area it was about $200 billion in 2007. Why?
Posted by: Peter at Jul 7, 2009 10:32:15 AM
Because I like Easterly's headline:
‘The burden of proof should be on interventionists—doubt is a superb reason for inaction’
It should be applied everywhere.
Posted by: Andrew at Jul 7, 2009 1:07:18 PM
I like Easterly's headline too, but I still don't get your point. Maybe that African Americans do so well financially in New York City compared to in the rest of the US because of better policing? Or just that the GPP of New York's African Americans is almost as large as the GDP of Nigeria, despite Nigeria having nearly 50 times as many people?
Posted by: Peter at Jul 7, 2009 1:26:49 PM
Nice post! I enjoy reading it a lot.
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