View Notes - Easterly2001.pdf from POLISCI 1 at Stanford University. "The Elusive Quest for Growth", MIT Press 2002. Easterly’s career and studies focus on economic development, and this book is no exception. In The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics William Easterly, a researcher at the World Bank, offers a thoughtful and at times scathing account of development economics' endeavor to foster economic growth in the world's poorest countries in the post-war era. If education causes people to miss out on more profitable outcomes, they will skip the education and do what is necessary to be most profitable. Authors William R. Easterly William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth - Chapter 8 The author discusses the importance of knowledge leaks and matching to create traps of wealth. Why Growth Matters 1. The Elusive Quest for Growth Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics William Easterly The MIT Press Cambridge, Chapter 8 The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Regional Challenges and Policy Options Bruno Losch 1 Introduction Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) exemplifies the issue of the quality of growth. Mulligan C. and X. Sala-i-Martin, "Transitional Dynamics in Two-Sector Models of Endogenous Growth", Quarterly Journal of Economics , August 1993. William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth - Chapter 3 The key to this chapter is that Solow argued that technology is the critical indicator of long-term economic growth. The Elusive Quest for Growth - Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, by William Easterly Review by: Philip Sansone This is Easterly's first book and if I had to choose one over the other, I would choose The White ebook. Easterly's fine storytelling and personal experiences provide a nice counterbalance to the analytic discussions of theory and statistics. William Easterly's The Elusive Quest for Growth - Chapter 2 ... Their combined work is known as the Harrod-Domar model. The elusive quest for growth in Argentina. The Elusive Quest is targeted to a broad audience, not primarily economists, and it is written in a personal, sometimes humorous, narrative style. The Elusive Quest for Growth Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William R. Easterly.