William Easterly, New York University economist and author of The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, discusses his concept of “searchers” and the role those searchers play in fighting global poverty. Easterly offered these remarks during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 304).
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