William Easterly ✓

@bill_easterly · New York City · joined 27 Apr 2009

NYU Economics Professor Emeritus. I am an expert on the other experts.

116 416Followers

2 181Following

15 250Posts total

38.8KViews on collected posts

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William Easterly ✓@bill_easterly16 Jul

@purposeful_pd I love your stuff on paradoxical kinesia. I discovered this for myself playing Ping Pong -- even when I am very off, I can lunge for the ball and hit a great shot 1.5K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

William Easterly ✓@bill_easterly11 Dec 2025

@bill_easterly These seem like insightful criticisms. I only listened to you on EconTalk, but I imagine your response is roughly “the point of the book isn’t to condemn the past ‘bad actors’ in some presentist purity test, but to show that we should elevate agency over external

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William Easterly ✓@bill_easterly10 Dec 2025

The Disease of Presentism – Commentary Magazine. A thoughtful mixed review of my book Violent Saviors. https://t.co/cWHRMZ4nuG 7.4K views · 30 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

William Easterly ✓@bill_easterly9 Dec 2025

Well, colonialism, slavery, and foreign aid are not exactly equivalent but maybe there are some lessons from the extreme cases... Russ Roberts indulges me in his great podcast ECONTALK https://t.co/v3ux3c25XN 19.6K views · 52 likes · 12 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

William Easterly ✓@bill_easterly2 Dec 2025

I am speaking at Cato on December 12. https://t.co/w70XipfJyU 7.4K views · 40 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

William Easterly ✓@bill_easterly20 Nov 2025

Thanks to @martinwolf_ in @FT for naming my book as one of best of 2025 in Economics https://t.co/NoGJueaxhB

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Em comparação com contas do mesmo porte

1 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 100K–1M seguidores. alcance comum para o seu porte, reação mais fraca que a maioria.

Mediana de visualizações1 517esta conta5 971mediana para 100K–1M

Alcance, %1.30%esta conta1.60%mediana para 100K–1M

Engajamento, %0.59%esta conta1.03%mediana para 100K–1M

Métrica	Esta conta	Mediana para 100K–1M	Proporção
Mediana de visualizações por post	1 517	5 971	0.25×
Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores)	1.30%	1.60%	0.81×
Taxa de engajamento	0.59%	1.03%	0.58×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.8K20 Nov

7.4K2 Dec

19.6K9 Dec

7.4K10 Dec

4711 Dec

1.5K16 Jul

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.07%20 Nov

0.67%2 Dec

0.34%9 Dec

0.52%10 Dec

0.00%11 Dec

0.59%16 Jul

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.03%.

What the audience does

Likes60.8%149 in total

Reposts13.5%33 in total

Replies3.7%9 in total

Quotes1.6%4 in total

Bookmarks20.4%50 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.