"Doing Bad by Doing Good answers this question (why humanitarian efforts, intended to help alleviate suffering, fail so badly) both in the case of Haiti and in other instances of human suffering. Moving past emotional and ideological-driven debates, Doing Bad by Doing Good uses the economic way of thinking to focus on the constraints and realities facing humanitarians. It explains how and why humanitarian efforts not only fail but impose harms on those who are already suffering." Read more about the book here…

You can read the Preface and Table of Contents (pdf) here…

Why not visit Dr. Coyne's web site here…

Enjoy part of his recent presentation at the CATO Institute below. This is definitely one book I've got to get.