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William Easterly: Divine Right of Kings Is Now Development Right of Dictators (The Guardian)

March 21, 2014

From the article:

Nancy Birdsall, founding president of the Centre for Global Development think tank in Washington DC, called the book "deeply radical and thought-provoking, and brilliantly entertaining". She writes: "Development insiders will, with some justification, complain about one-sidedness and exaggeration. But no one who starts this book will be able to put it down, or be able to undo its influence on her thinking about the deep determinants of development progress."

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