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Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always cleareyed and rigorous, easterly argues that we in the west need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper. Easterlys new book the white mans burden tackles the ambitious plans of economists throughout the modern age to try to address the question of underdevelopment and why those efforts have gone repeatedly badly. In the white man s burden, william easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the world bank, addresses these twin tragedies head on. The united states and the philippine islands 1899, by rudyard kipling, is a poem about the philippineamerican war 18991902, which exhorts the united states to assume colonial control of the filipino people and their country.
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