The white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good / William Easterly. [electronic resource] : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so

A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.