People in the first group have names like Bono, Angelina Jolie, Bob Geldof, Bill Gates, John Edwards, and Jeffrey Sachs. People in the second group have names like Abhijit Banerjee, Tim Besley, Francesco Caselli, Esther Duflo, Lant Pritchett, and Mark Rosenzweig. Guess which point of view gets the bulk of media coverage and of public attention.

Dani Rodrik describes two schools of thought in development economics, and it’s not the hackneyed market vs. state or Sachs vs Easterly dichotomies.