John W. Pope Lecture Series
Presenting
William Easterley
Professor of Economics
and co-director, Development Research Institute
New York University
Monday, February 23, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
NC State University
A public reception in Nelson Hall immediately following the lecture.
Nelson Hall is at the corner of Hillsborough Street and Dan Allen Drive
on the NC State campus.
About the speaker
William Easterly is professor of economics at New York University and co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute. He also is a research assistant with the Bureau of Economic Research.
Easterly received the 2008 Hayek Prize from the Manhattan Institute for his book, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. In this and his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, he draws on his 16 years of service with The World Bank as he presents a critical review of the impact of top-down foreign aid policies.
Easterly also is co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, and a non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development. He is the author of three other co-edited books, and 59 articles in refereed economics journals, and serves on the board of the anti-malaria philanthropy, Nets for Life.
His work has been discussed globally by the major national and international news media. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the world’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals in 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT. He was born in West Virginia and grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio.
About this lecture series
The John W. Pope Lecture Series is hosted by NC State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences and College of Management to encourage dialogue on topics of political and economic interest. The lecture series is supported by a grant from the John W. Pope Foundation.
The program includes support for Foundations for a Free Society and the Society for Political Science, Economics and Law (SPEL), which provides an intellectual forum for students interested in pursuing careers in the practice of law.
Previous Presenters:
2008: William A. Niskanen, chairman emeritus and Distinguished Senior Economist, The Cato Institute
2007: Richard A. Epstein, professor and director of the Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago.
2006: Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the book, Manliness
2005: Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize recipient in economics