Ethics Matter: Economist and Foreign Aid Specialist William Easterly

Oct 3, 2011

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The best system for discovering new approaches is not to have one planner at the top trying to decide what are going to be the successful innovations, says Bill Easterly. It's to have lots and lots of people at the bottom experimenting and finding their own innovations.

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