In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK forei...(展开全部)

In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK forei...(展开全部)

威廉·伊斯特利（William Easterly），世界银行前首席经济学家,目前为纽约大学经济学系教授、纽约大学发展研究院院长。被《外交政策》杂志评为全球100名最杰出的公共知识分子，全球最多引用次数的100名经济学家之一。著有全球畅销书《白种人的负担》。

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert” solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats,” leaving ...(展开全部)

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert” solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats,” leaving ...(展开全部)

威廉·伊斯特利（William Easterly），世界银行前首席经济学家,目前为纽约大学经济学系教授、纽约大学发展研究院院长。被《外交政策》杂志评为全球100名最杰出的公共知识分子，全球最多引用次数的100名经济学家之一。著有全球畅销书《白种人的负担》。

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor...(展开全部)

This is a brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair. We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming freedom to choose can create extr...(展开全部)

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor...(展开全部)

皮埃尔·布迪厄(Pierre Bourdleu，1930-2002)，著名社会学家，法兰西学院院士。主要著作有《区隔趣味判断的社会批判》、《学术人》、《实践理论大纲》、《教育、社会和文化的再生产》、《艺术的法则：文学场的发生和结构》、《文化生产场：论艺术和文学》、《遏止野火》等。