From subsistence to exchange and other essays /

Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writin...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Bauer, P. T. (Péter Tamás)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2000.
Schriftenreihe:New forum books.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7pfxd
Inhaltsangabe:
  • From subsistence to exchange
  • Disregard of reality
  • The land and the people
  • Population explosion: disaster or blessing
  • Foreign aid: abiding issues
  • Western guilt and third world poverty
  • The liberal death wish
  • Ecclesiastical economics: envy legitimized
  • Hong Kong
  • Effective influence on opinion: The Shenoy Memorial Lecture
  • Class on the brain
  • Egalitarianism: a delicate dilemma.