At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.