Elegy for Easterly

Development economist's are going to think something happened to Bill Easterly... and for awhile (speaking of visual illusions) I could not train my brain to realize that there actually was not a short story in this collection by Petina Gappah about how Bill Easterly was or was not responsible for Zimbabwe's collapse.

The stories are pretty good... good not great, as they say.  Certainly for someone interested in doing research on Zimbabwe, it offers a first glimpse into the country's social and economic structures.  Especially good on elite attitudes!  I look forward to reading more form Gappah.