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The newest essays, interviews, and features from Big Think.

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Our prescriptions contradict our own path to success.
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Individual creativity and freedom is the mainspring of all human progress.
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It’s going to be Africans that save Africa.
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Africa hasn’t done so bad for a continent created under such inauspicious conditions.
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Easterly takes on his intellectual rival.
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How do we make sure aid gets where it’s going?
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“Economics says there’s this genius of the invisible hand that makes wealth happen without anyone intending it.”
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Easterly talks about a question he would ask.
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Let African farmers sell their cotton on an open market.
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Technology is very seductive to a lot of people, Easterly says.
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American foreign policy has created a hornet’s nest.
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The tension between collective and independent action has shaped both the developing and developed worlds.
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Easterly’s people come from the hills of West Virginia.
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Artists have the most solitary and social interconnected existence.
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In helping people, it is important to respect their autonomy.
The end of poverty is achieved through homegrown free markets.