http://viveks.info/easterly-cash-for-condoms Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://viveks.info/easterly-cash-for-condoms/comment-page-1#comment-148 Review of Easterly’s Elusive quest for growth at Institutions & Development Blog Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:38:26 +0000 http://viveks.info/easterly-cash-for-condoms#comment-148 [...] The book covers a wide ground by looking many pressing issues (population, human capital, health, etc.). Each of these chapters present interesting insights. May be given the limitations of discussing so many themes the discussion merely touches the surface of most topics. This would not be a shortcoming of the book but for the fact that what is discussed stays well within the framework of mainstream economics that is inadequate to understand phenomena. I have elaborated this in a separate post with reference to his cash for condoms chapter. The unfortunate tendency to ignore the rich context in which we live and make decisions persists through the book. My verdict about the book: useful insights, poor prescriptions. [...] [...] The book covers a wide ground by looking many pressing issues (population, human capital, health, etc.). Each of these chapters present interesting insights. May be given the limitations of discussing so many themes the discussion merely touches the surface of most topics. This would not be a shortcoming of the book but for the fact that what is discussed stays well within the framework of mainstream economics that is inadequate to understand phenomena. I have elaborated this in a separate post with reference to his cash for condoms chapter. The unfortunate tendency to ignore the rich context in which we live and make decisions persists through the book. My verdict about the book: useful insights, poor prescriptions. [...]

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