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I hope Bill won’t be offended if I call him one of economics’ most prominent aid critics from the right — and as such, it’s notable that Musk’s attack on USAID has lost him too.

Easterly is probably the most famous critic of foreign aid within academia, but he knows the Trump administration is acting illegally with the way they are trying to end foreign aid

Easterly is one of the most outspoken critics of our foreign aid programs, pointing out where they've propped up dictators and wasted money. So is he glad that Elon is trying to torch USAID? No. People who value excellence and results are still waiting to see either from DOGE.

Among all the noise and the barrage of lies, here is William Easterly, someone I've admired for years, reminding us that even if you think something is broken about our current aid system, the *how* matters as much as the what.

When Bill Easterly - one of the staunchest critics of foreign aid - say shutting down #USAID is wrong, you know they’ve lost the plot.

To the surprise of some of my EA friends, i'm a big William Easterly fan & agree with many of his criticisms of the foreign aid establishment. Unsurprisingly (to me, at least) he sees the gutting of USAID for what it is: a disaster.

Many of the ugliest chapters in the history of "global development" is precisely where western geopolitical interests have taken precedence over the interests of aid recipients (as Easterly has recounted in The White Man's Burden & The Tyranny of Experts).

Never realized how much the Chiefs depended on funding from USAID

Papers that make you go wow

Alas, along with recent USAID and State Dept cuts to my organized crime and criminal justice research in Latin America, on Friday DoD terminated a new $2.1 million grant to study programs to counter organized crime and gang recruitment science.org/content/articl…

In my academic lifetime development was “not a real field” and you had to cluster together to justify the work you were doing. US funding cuts are a hit but the field is stronger than ever.

And now for something unexpected: how Ping Pong is helping me fight Parkinson's Disease nypost.com/2025/03/12/hea…

I had the pleasure of hanging out with the PingPongParkinson group when I was in NYC last month ... here's how pingpong is helping Parkinson's patients

I lost all my respect for you, MrBeast... Your charity work is just holding Africa back.

My article with Steven Pennings just published in Journal of Development Economics -- few national leaders have a large contribution to economic growth. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My discussion with Tom G. Palmer: Global Prosperity Without Foreign Aid youtu.be/MqJAOg90B7Y?si… via YouTube

This figure is striking. It shows the relationship between where people think they are in the income distribution and where they actually are. Observations below the line indicate that people think they are poorer than they really are (and the reverse above the line). What

Happy Birthday Professor Hayek. Born on May 8th, 1899. He was a witness of the 20th century, but a theorist for the 21st. We still have much to learn from this revolutionary thinker in the social sciences and humanities.

Never in the field of human commerce has so much been promised to so many from so little. My May column for Barron's . . . barrons.com/articles/trump…