{"id":6724,"date":"2014-04-04T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T21:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2014-04-04T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T21:31:51","slug":"nassim-n-talebs-review-of-the-tyranny-of-experts-economists-dictators-and-the-forgotten-rights-of-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/nassim-n-talebs-review-of-the-tyranny-of-experts-economists-dictators-and-the-forgotten-rights-of-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim N Taleb&#8217;s review of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>5.0 out of 5 stars Nobody asked them if they would rather get respect and no aid rather than aid and no respect., April 3, 2014<\/p>\n<p>By N N Taleb &#8220;Nassim N Taleb&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This review is from: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover)<\/p>\n<p>The point that top-down development methods are great on paper but have not produced benefits (&#8220;so far&#8221;) is a point Easterly has made before, heavily influencing yours truly in the formation his own argument against naive interventionism and the collection of &#8220;humanitarians&#8221; fulfilling their personal growth and shielding themselves from their conscience&#8230; This is more powerful: the West has been putting development ahead of moral issues, patronizingly setting aside the right of the people to decide their own fate, including whether they want these &#8220;improvements&#8221;, hence compounding failure and turning much of development into an agenda that benefits the careers (and angst) of &#8220;humanitarians&#8221;, imperial policies, and, not least, local autocrats *without* any moral contribution. Talking about a sucker problem.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>To put it in an aphorism, they didn&#8217;t ask the people if they would rather get respect and no aid rather than aid and no respect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R1JJ6JYXKU2044\/ref=cm_cr_old_cmt_rd\">Amazon.com: N N Taleb &#8220;Nassim N Taleb&#8221;&#8216;s review of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictat&#8230;<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.0 out of 5 stars Nobody asked them if they would rather get respect and no aid rather than aid and no respect., April 3, 2014 By N N Taleb &#8220;Nassim N Taleb&#8221; This review is from: The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (Hardcover) The point that top-down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[562],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-nassim-taleb-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}