Equality, the Third World, and economic delusion / P.T. Bauer.

By:

Bauer, P. T. (Péter Tamás) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981Description: x, 293 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0297776452 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 330 BAU DS1353

Contents:

Part one: Equality. The grail of equality -- Class on the brain -- Part two: The West and the third world. The population explosion: myths and realities -- Western guilt and third world poverty -- Foreign aid and its hydra-headed rationalization -- Background to aid -- The link scheme of aid -- Costs and risks of commodity stabilization -- British Colonial Africa: economic retrospect and aftermath -- The lesson of Hong Kong -- Broadcasting the liberal death wish -- Part three: The state of economics. Economists and the two dollar problems -- Economic history as theory -- The investment fetish -- Reflections on the state of economics.

Subject: The author convincingly challenges widely held views about economic development, colonialism, the foreign aid process, the goal of egalitarianism, and the population explosion. The book sets a high standard in its deployment of fact and economic reasoning, yet it is beautifully written and accessible to the lay reader.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The author convincingly challenges widely held views about economic development, colonialism, the foreign aid process, the goal of egalitarianism, and the population explosion. The book sets a high standard in its deployment of fact and economic reasoning, yet it is beautifully written and accessible to the lay reader.

Gift of David Satterthwaite.

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