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From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
Peter Tamas Bauer
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Description for From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
Paperback. Shows the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. This book includes the process that transforms a subsistence economy into an exchange economy, the correlation between poverty and population density, and the alleged responsibility of the West for Third World poverty. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 257.
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 writings have been quite astonishing." This collection of Bauer's essays reveals the full power and range of his thought as well as the central concern that underlies so much of his diverse work: the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. The papers here cover pressing and ... Read more
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 writings have been quite astonishing." This collection of Bauer's essays reveals the full power and range of his thought as well as the central concern that underlies so much of his diverse work: the impact of people's conduct, their cultural institutions, and the policies of their governments on economic progress. The papers here cover pressing and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Series
New Forum Books
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117829
SKU
V9780691117829
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About Peter Tamas Bauer
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.
Reviews for From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
"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 ... Read more
The Economist "Whether or not the reader agrees with [Bauer's] positions, they are carefully and thoughtfully argued. "
Foreign Affairs "[Bauer] has also ... Read more