📗 Libro en inglés AFRICONOMICS

A historically insightful read Financial Times A wry rollicking and provocative history Michael Taylor author of The Interest A thought provoking analysis of Africa s relationship with economic imperialism Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata authors of It s A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics For centuries Westerners have tried to fix African economies From the abolition of slavery onwards missionaries philanthropists development economists and NGOs have arrived on the continent full of good intentions and bad ideas Their experiments have invariably gone awry to the great surprise of all involved In this short bold story of Western economic thought about Africa historian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail because they start from a misguided premise that African economies just need to be more like the West Ignoring Africa s own traditions of economic thought Europeans and Americans assumed a set of universal economic laws that they thought could be applied anywhere They enforced specifically Western ideas about growth wealth debt unemployment inflation women s work and more and used Western metrics to find African countries wanting The West does not know better than African nations how an econom