From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
by Bauer, P. T.; Bauer, PeterFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-03-01
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary
"The essays here contain many of the key elements of Professor Bauer's thought, which I regard as an oasis of common sense in a desert of muddled thinking.... He goes after weak and self-serving explanations with commendable vigor."--Richard Epstein, University of Chicago
Author Biography
Peter Bauer is Professor Emeritus of Economics, London School of Economics, University of London; Fellow of the British Academy; and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| From Subsistence to Exchange | p. 3 |
| Disregard of Reality | p. 15 |
| The Land and the People | p. 28 |
| Population Explosion: Disaster or Blessing | p. 30 |
| Foreign Aid: Abiding Issues | p. 41 |
| Western Guilt and Third World Poverty | p. 53 |
| The Liberal Death Wish | p. 73 |
| Ecclesiastical Economics: Envy Legitimized | p. 94 |
| Hong Kong | p. 109 |
| Effective Influence on Opinion: The Shenoy Memorial Lecture | p. 116 |
| Class on the Brain | p. 125 |
| Egalitarianism: A Delicate Dilemma | p. 139 |
| Index | p. 149 |
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