From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
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From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays by Peter Tamas Bauer
This collection of essays covers pressing and controversial issues, including the process that transforms a subsistence economy into an exchange economy, the reputed correlation between poverty and population density, and the alleged responsibility of the West for Third World poverty.
"For half a century, Peter Bauer has been a towering iconoclast among development economists, consistently unafraid to demolish conventional wisdom with penetrating insight. . . [T]his excellent collection of essays. . . [is] a wonderful introduction to a mind that takes no prisoners." * The Economist *
"Whether or not the reader agrees with [Bauer's] positions, they are carefully and thoughtfully argued." * Foreign Affairs *
"[Bauer] has also been interested in explaining the Zeitgeist which produced-and in many cases continues to project-the influential ideas and policies which are in such total disregard of readily observable reality. It is these reflections, contained in a number of essays in this book, which are likely to resonate with the general reader observing the contemporary world scene."---Deepak Lal, Times Literary Supplement
"Whether or not the reader agrees with [Bauer's] positions, they are carefully and thoughtfully argued." * Foreign Affairs *
"[Bauer] has also been interested in explaining the Zeitgeist which produced-and in many cases continues to project-the influential ideas and policies which are in such total disregard of readily observable reality. It is these reflections, contained in a number of essays in this book, which are likely to resonate with the general reader observing the contemporary world scene."---Deepak Lal, Times Literary Supplement
Peter Bauer (Lord Bauer) iwas Professor Emeritus of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London. The author of many books, he was Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He died in 2002. Amartya Sen, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, is Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691006673 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691006679 |
| Title | From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays |
| Author | Peter Tamas Bauer |
| Series | New Forum Books |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2000-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
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