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P. T. Bauer

Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in the Economics of Development Hardcover – March 15, 1984

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Compares market and centrally planned economics, looks at Third World industrial development, multi-national resource transfers, and immigration policies, and analyzes the economics of underdeveloped countries

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184 pages
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English
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Harvard University Press
Publication date

March 15, 1984
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6.75 x 1 x 9.5 inches
ISBN-10

0674749464
ISBN-13

978-0674749467
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Jpeppard

Eye opening

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A complete refutation of the conception of established capitalist intervention into emerging markets as inherently exploitative or destructive. A clear demonstration of the value of connecting largely agrarian populations with global markets to introduce them to market based systems and lift them up from subsistence living.

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This is one of the books that opened my eyes.

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Any student who is interested in development economics will find much here to think reflect upon. It is also relatively short, and Bauer's conversational tone makes it very easy to read.
I joined the Socialist Party when I was 14 (the YSL, to be exact). In the late 1980s, while I was in my post-hippie phase, I happened to pick up this book as part of my e-evaluation of the socialist viewpoint I had accepted as "normal" since high school and college. The power of the book is, in addition to its clarity, that it is a book of great common sense, backed up by his own research in Africa and SE Asia.
"Hostility to the market and contempt for ordinary people ...are often only two sides of the same coin.." (p. 35)

There is also a chapter on Ecclesiastical Economics with the very perceptive sub title- Envy Legitimized.
--Mr. G

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