Dissent on DevelopmentHarvard University Press, 1976 - 320 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Acknowledgements | 15 |
Introduction to the Revised Edition | 17 |
The Vicious Circle of Poverty and the Widening Gap A THE VICIOUS CIRCLE 1 The Thesis Outlined | 31 |
The Thesis Invalid | 33 |
Empirical Evidence | 34 |
International Demonstration Effect | 38 |
Some Objections Considered | 41 |
Aspects and Implications of Change | 43 |
Potentialities of Aid | 132 |
SPECIFIC ARGUMENTS FOR PLANNING | 136 |
Raising the level of saving and investment Promotion of manufacturing industry Compensating for lack of enter prise Provision of external econo... | 145 |
Colonialism and Underdevelopment 1 Colonial Status and Material Progress | 147 |
Colonialism as Exploitation? | 150 |
Colonialism and Sovereignty | 152 |
A Legacy of Colonialism | 153 |
Interpretations of Political and Economic Colonialism | 155 |
Impact of Change | 45 |
Appeal of the Vicious Circle | 46 |
B A WIDENING GAP? 9 The Vicious Circle and the Widening Gap | 49 |
Ambiguities in the Concept of the Gap | 51 |
Distinction between Developed and Underdeveloped Countries | 52 |
Problems of International Income Comparisons | 55 |
Population Growth and the Widening Gap | 60 |
Further Implications of Population Growth | 63 |
The National Income as Index of Welfare | 64 |
Wider Considerations on the Gap | 66 |
Conclusion | 67 |
Dissent on Development A COMPREHENSIVE CENTRAL PLANNING 1 Axiomatic Case for Planning | 69 |
Some Points of Clarification | 73 |
Determinants of Development | 74 |
Effects of Climate | 82 |
Planning and Progress | 84 |
Some Components of Planning and their Implications | 85 |
Some Political Results | 86 |
Two Objections Considered | 88 |
Planning and Living Standards | 89 |
Government and Material Progress | 90 |
Appeal of Planning | 92 |
B FOREIGN | 95 |
Axiomatic Case for Aid | 96 |
Foreign Aid and Material Progress | 98 |
Domestic Growth and External Gifts | 103 |
Criteria for Allocation and Practical Implications of Aid | 106 |
Aid and Infrastructure | 110 |
Further Repercussions and Implications of Aid III | 111 |
Specific and Subsidiary Arguments in Support of Aid | 114 |
Aid as redistributive taxation The relief of need Population problems as ground for aid Aid as a moral duty The argument from indebtedness Aid ... | 130 |
NeoColonialism | 157 |
Alleged Causes of Backwardness | 158 |
The Helpful and the Helpless | 161 |
Marxism and the Underdeveloped Countries 1 Pertinent Elements of Marxism | 164 |
External Exploitation | 165 |
Interpretation of Imperialism | 167 |
Political and Economic Independence | 168 |
Prerequisites of Progress | 171 |
Policy Prescriptions of MarxismLeninism | 173 |
Appeal of MarxismLeninism | 175 |
Special Appeal in Poor Countries | 177 |
Debasement of the Language | 180 |
Asian Vistas 1 Mainsprings of Progress | 183 |
Reinterpretation of Planning | 185 |
Transformation of Man and Society | 189 |
Conduct and mores Ethnic and linguistic differences Income wealth and status | 194 |
Hostility to the Prosperous | 197 |
Compulsory Standardisation and its Implications | 198 |
Raising of Income as Ground for Compulsion | 200 |
Objectives and Corollaries | 203 |
Provenance of Resources and the Role of the Intellectuals | 205 |
Planning as an Axiom | 207 |
The Rural Sector | 208 |
Expectations from Birth Control | 212 |
Economic Change in SouthEast Asia | 215 |
TECHNICAL APPARATUS AND SOME PREOCCUPA | 223 |
A Critique of UNCTAD | 233 |
EXTRACTS FROM THE PREBISCH REPORT | 269 |
The Study of Underdeveloped Economies | 291 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Dissent on Development: Studies and Debates in Development Economics Péter Tamás Bauer Vista de fragmentos - 1971 |
Dissent on Development: Studies and Debates in Development Economics Péter Tamás Bauer Vista de fragmentos - 1972 |
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