From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays

Name: From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
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ISBN: 9780691117829

ISBN-10: 0691117829

ISBN-13: 9780691117829

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peter Tamas Bauer, Amartya Sen

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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 controversial issues, including the process that…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

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.



Introduction




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


Index