Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in the Economics of Development - Softcover

P.T. Bauer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0297786288 ISBN 13: 9780297786283

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson London, 1985

Synopsis

Reality and Rhetoric is the culmination of P. T. Bauer's observations and reflections on Third World economies over a period of thirty years. He critically examines the central issues of market versus centrally planned economies, industrial development, official direct and multinational resource transfers to the Third World, immigration policy in the Third World, and economic methodology. In addition, he has written a fascinating account of recent papal doctrine on income inequality and redistribution in the Third World. The major themes that emerge are the importance of noneconomic variables, particularly people's aptitudes and mores, to economic growth; the unfortunate results of some current methods of economics; the subtle but important effects of the exchange economy on development; and the politicization of economic life in the Third World.

As in P. T. Bauer's previous writings, this book is marked by elegant prose, apt examples, a broad economic-historical perspective, and the masterful use of informal reasoning.

About this title

About the Author:

P. T. Bauer was Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Review:

One of the most distinguished development economists in the world, and undoubtedly the foremost conservative one. (Amartya Sen New York Review of Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson London
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0297786288
• ISBN 13: 9780297786283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192