No News is Good News
Economist Charles Kenny began his lecture at the Goethe-Institut by explaining the major problem with his own new book. “It’s about exciting stuff that doesn’t happen. The book is about how much more frequently around the world nothing much is going on. Nobody starves, nobody gets sick, nobody gets shot, and nobody dies.” But that’s exactly the point, said Kenny, a senior economist at the World Bank and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development whose book is called Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding – And How …
