Christopher J. Coyne is the F.A. Harper Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. He is the author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy , coauthor of Media, Development, and Institutional Change, and coeditor of The Handbook on the Political Economy of War.
"Coyne is to be congratulated for a book that strongly calls into question the conventional wisdom that we must look first to government to accomplish humanitarian ends." - George Leef, Regulation Magazine "Coyne attempts to explain why conventional approaches to humanitarian aid and longer term economic development have failed miserably ... Recommended." - M. Q. Dao, Choice "Coyne offers a classic neo-liberal economic analysis to explain why the humanitarian project in its current state is doomed." - Zoe Cormack, Times Literary Supplement "Coyne's message is desperately needed within the development community. He develops a systematic theory that enables us to better understand foreign intervention, expertly revealing its application in a wide range of countries over time." - Benjamin Powell, Professor of Economics, Texas Tech University "Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Bringing public choice and Austrian economics to bear, Coyne explains why conventional approaches to humanitarian aid and longer-term economic development have failed miserably - and how to avoid repeating the same mistakes." - William F. Shughart II, J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice, Utah State University
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