William Easterly Quotes
We don't do the poor any favors by respecting the sensitivities of bad rulers who oppress their own people.
William Easterly, Economist and Writer, Co-Director, NYU Development Research Institute, The White Man's Burden, 2006
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Napoleon had been a great supporter of Napoleon, but had become disillusioned.
Historically, most dictators have announced their worst intentions and in many cases were not believed by much of the world who then learned that they had made a serious error.
The dictator that he thought Russia needed, Stalin, turned on him in 1937 for not agreeing with Stalin enthusiastically enough, had a 1 day trial for treason, and executed the best military man in the country despite the fact that Russia would need its military to fight the German invasion.
This has been true when U. S. policy was too intimately supportive of fascist dictators running repressive governments. When change finally takes place, there has been much resentment against America for their earlier support. Greece, Egypt, South Vietnam, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Argentina are all examples where we did pay a price.
Soon he had the power of a dictator but he didn’t force his will on the vast majority of the Cubans. His decrees made all the wealthy and the cronies of the dictator Batista outraged and most of them left Cuba. He was a dynamic demagogue and the people handed him dictatorial powers which he did not reject. He was so popular that he was the only leader in the Americas who would give 4 hour speeches and move through the streets without any bodyguards until the United States and dissident expatriates tried to assassinate him. With all that popularity, none the less he would not allow open criticism of his regime and jailed many political opponents. So he indeed became a dictator but never needed the machine gun to maintain power.
This is the argument—an essence of Fascism—of every dictator from Julius Caesar onward. See {640792} for more of his views on dictators.
William Russell Easterly is an American economist, specializing in economic development. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is a Research Associate of NBER, senior fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) of Duke University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Easterly is an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Growth.
