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This groundbreaking work from the hugely influential economist P.
T. Bauer, first published in 1954 and reissued with a new
introduction in 1963, is a thorough and detailed analysis of the
findings of the Colonial Economic Research Committee, from their
investigation into the structure of West African Trade and
especially the monopolistic tendencies inherent within it.
Materials for the study were collected and analysed between 1949
and 1952, offering an invaluable insight into dominant features of
contemporary West African Economies and an analysis of their
implications.
Professor Bauer's book, first published in 1961, reviews the major
elements of contemporary official Indian development policy,
considers their economic implications and their probable political
and economic results. He then examines alternative approaches to
the promotion of development. The development plans, notably the
Second Five Year Plan and the official outlines of the Third Plan,
receive major attention, but the author also considers other
official policies and measures affecting economic development,
which do not usually figure prominently in the formal development
plans. Specific themes which Professor Bauer considers are: the
influence of social customs and attitudes on economic progress; the
relationship between investment expenditure and economic
development; inter-relationships between agriculture and industry;
the heavy industry programme; the controls over the private
section; the relation of Plan finance to the foreign exchange
crisis; the role of foreign aid; and the importance of certain
major political objectives.
This groundbreaking work from the hugely influential economist P.
T. Bauer, first published in 1954 and reissued with a new
introduction in 1963, is a thorough and detailed analysis of the
findings of the Colonial Economic Research Committee, from their
investigation into the structure of West African Trade and
especially the monopolistic tendencies inherent within it.
Materials for the study were collected and analysed between 1949
and 1952, offering an invaluable insight into dominant features of
contemporary West African Economies and an analysis of their
implications.
Professor Bauer's book, first published in 1961, reviews the major
elements of contemporary official Indian development policy,
considers their economic implications and their probable political
and economic results. He then examines alternative approaches to
the promotion of development. The development plans, notably the
Second Five Year Plan and the official outlines of the Third Plan,
receive major attention, but the author also considers other
official policies and measures affecting economic development,
which do not usually figure prominently in the formal development
plans. Specific themes which Professor Bauer considers are: the
influence of social customs and attitudes on economic progress; the
relationship between investment expenditure and economic
development; inter-relationships between agriculture and industry;
the heavy industry programme; the controls over the private
section; the relation of Plan finance to the foreign exchange
crisis; the role of foreign aid; and the importance of certain
major political objectives.
Based on information collected and processed by the Colonial
Economic Research Committee between 1949 and 1952, and originally
published in 1954, this book examines the key features of the
economies of colonial Nigeria and the Gold Coast. Influential
economist Peter Bauer assesses the monopolistic tendencies inherent
in West African trade structures as well as the repercussions of
the colonial government's own, sometimes biased, preferences. This
book will be of use to anyone interested in the economic history of
West Africa and the economic effects of colonialism.
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
non-economic 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 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.
Even in impoverished countries lacking material and human
resources, P. T. Bauer argues, economic growth is possible under
the right conditions. These include a certain amount of thrift and
enterprise among the people, social mores and traditions which
sustain them, and a firm but limited government which permits
market forces to work. Challenging many views about development
that are widely held, Bauer takes on squarely the notion that
egalitarianism is an appropriate goal. He goes on to argue that the
population explosion of less-developed countries has on the whole
been a voluntary phenomenon and that each new generation has lived
better than its forebears. He also critically examines the notion
that the policies and practices of Western nations have been
responsible for third world poverty. In a major chapter, he reviews
the rationalizations for foreign aid and finds them weak; while in
another he shows that powerful political clienteles have developed
in the Western nations supporting the foreign aid process and
probably benefiting more from it than the alleged recipients.
Another chapter explores the link between the issue of Special
Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund on the one hand
and the aid process on the other. Throughout the book, Bauer
carefully examines the evidence and the light it throws on the
propositions of development. Although the results of his analysis
contradict the conventional wisdom of development economics, anyone
who is seriously concerned with the subject must take them into
account.
With style and imagination, this iconoclastic work covers the major
issues in development economics. In eight carefully reasoned
essays, P. T. Bauer challenges most of the accepted notions and
supports his views with evidence drawn from a wide range of primary
sources and direct experience. The essays were selected on the
basis of their interest to students and general readers from
Bauer's book, Dissent on Development: Studies and Debates in
Development Economics. Reviewing the previous work, the Wall Street
Journal wrote: "It could have a profound impact on our thinking
about the entire development question... Quite simply, it is no
longer possible to discuss development economics intelligently
without coming to grips with the many arguments P. T. Bauer
marshalled in this extraordinary work."
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