Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)
Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)Pub date: 2025-12-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Can the promise of economic progress ever justify conquest, coercion, and control over other people’s lives? Economist William Easterly joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to argue no--and to rethink what "development" really means in theory, in history, and in our politics today. Drawing on his new book, Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Rest, Easterly…
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