Researching William Easterly
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6 people with the Easterly surname? In that year Easterly was ranked number 3573 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Easterly on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Easterly and the Easterly Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Easterly surname in the USA? Easterly is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called William Easterly
William Easterly
William Russell Easterly (born September 7, 1957) 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.
Easterly is the author of three books: The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001); The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006), which won the 2008 Hayek Prize; and The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor (2014), which was a finalist for the 2015 Hayek Prize.
Source: William Easterly, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Easterly
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