White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Easterly, William R. 200609 Oxford University Press, 384p.
■Easterly, William R. 200609 White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, Oxford University Press, 384p. ISBN-10: 0199210829 ISBN-13: 978-0199210824 UK£16.99 ［amazon］
■内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
世界を代表する著名な開発経済学者が、いわゆる「発展途上国」を向上させようという西洋の思い上がりを激しく糾弾する。
前作『The Elusive Quest for Growth』（邦題『エコノミスト 南の貧困と戦う』）のなかで、西洋の組織は世界の貧困を解消するうえではまったくの役立たずだと批判したウィリアム・イースタリーは、当時の勤め先だった世界銀行から即刻解雇された。『The White Man's Burden』は、おおいに期待されていたイースタリーの反撃――世界の貧困に対する西洋の経済政策に叩きつけた、華々しくも激しい告発状だ。ときに怒り、ときに無礼になり、だが常に明敏で厳しいイースタリーは、みずからの愚かさの歴史と向き合い、正しい結論を導き出すことが西洋人には必要だと説いている。とりわけ、西洋の組織を途上国に導入する能力への疑念が膨らみ、我々の直面するもっとも切迫した問題となっている現状では、その必要性は高い。
■出版社/著者からの内容紹介
No one who attacks the humanitarian aid establishment is going to win any popularity contests, but, neither, it seems, is that establishment winning any contests with the people it is supposed to be helping. Easterly, an NYU economics professor and a former research economist at the World Bank, brazenly contends that the West has failed, and continues to fail, to enact its ill-formed, utopian aid plans because, like the colonialists of old, it assumes it knows what is best for everyone. Existing aid strategies, Easterly argues, provide neither accountability nor feedback. Without accountability for failures, he says, broken economic systems are never fixed. And without feedback from the poor who need the aid, no one in charge really understands exactly what trouble spots need fixing. True victories against poverty, he demonstrates, are most often achieved through indigenous, ground-level planning. Except in its early chapters, where Easterly builds his strategic platform atop a tower of statistical analyses, the book's wry, cynical prose is highly accessible. Readers will come away with a clear sense of how orthodox methods of poverty reduction do not help, and can sometimes worsen, poor economies.
■目次
Chapter 1 Planners Versus Searchers
PART I WHY PLANNERS CANNOT BRING PROSPERITY
Chapter 2 The Legend of the Big Push
Chapter 3 You Can't Plan a Market
Chapter 4 Planners and Gangsters
PART II ACTING OUT THE BURDEN
Chapter 5 The Rich Have Markets, the Poor Have Bureaucrats
Chapter 6 Bailing Out the Poor
Chapter 7 The Healers: Triumph and Tragedy
PART III THE WHITE MAN'S ARMY
Chapter 8 From Colonialism to Postmodern Imperialism
Chapter 9 Invading the Poor
PART IV THE FUTURE
Chapter 10 Homegrown Development
Chapter 11 The Future of Western
■書評･言及
◆Aid: Can It Work? By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Review of Books Vol.53, No.15. Oct. 5, 2006)
◆How Aid Can Work By Jeffrey D. Sachs (The New York Review of Books Vol.53, No.20. Dec. 21, 2006)
◆'The White Man's Burden' By William Easterly (The New York Review of Books Vol.54, No.1. Jan. 11, 2007)
◆池田 信夫 「The White Man's Burden」
◆山形 辰史 （2008） 「書評William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good」， 『アジア経済』， 第49巻， 第1号．
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