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November 15, 2008
Easterly on Collier, again
Thirteen months after reviewing Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion
Once again, Easterly largely ignores Collier's analysis of trade, aid, and governance, focusing on his arguments for military/security interventions. This new column merely fleshes out the objections he raised previously.
HT: Blattman
Posted by Dingel at November 15, 2008 02:00 PM
Comments
Collier's econometrics is a bit dodgy, mainly because of small sample problems imho, but Easterly comes across as cavalier himself ... because Collier does discuss the problems of establishing causation, controlling for omitted variables etc. but you wouldn't know that to read Easterly.
Posted by: Luis Enrique at November 17, 2008 08:53 AM