{"product_id":"africonomics-a-history-of-western-ignorance-hardcover","title":"Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBronwen Everill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor centuries, Westerners have tried to \"fix\" African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail, and frequently cause harm, 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, Americans and Europeans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe West does not know better than African nations how an economy should be run. By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, \u003cem\u003eAfriconomics\u003c\/em\u003e moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBronwen Everill\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSmithsonian Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eNot Made by Slaves and Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEmpire in Sierra Leone and Liberia\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches writing at Princeton and is a research affiliate of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past at Stellenbosch University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.7 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51964675522861,"sku":"9781620979754","price":32.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/africonomics-a-history-of-western-ignorance-hardcover-3766668.webp?v=1775477106","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/africonomics-a-history-of-western-ignorance-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}