Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on November 12, 2015

in Foreign Aid, Man of System, Myths and Fallacies, Scientism

… is from page 6 of William Easterly’s excellent 2013 volume, The Tyranny of Experts:

Any approach to [economic] development will either respect the rights of the poor or it will violate them.  One cannot avoid this moral choice by appealing to “nonideological evidence-based policies” (a popular phrase in development today).

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