1st American edition; dj in mylar; green c w/gilt sine titles; author's complimentary card laid in (unsigned); 184 clean, unmarked pages/index.a collection of essays critiquing mainstream development economics, arguing that market-driven growth, personal initiative, and international trade?not foreign aid or central planning?are the engines of development. It argues that economic achievement stems from individual efforts and specific societal aptitudes rather than, or in spite of, government planning.

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Title: Reality and Rhetoric. Studies in the Economics of Development
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Publication Date: 1984
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0674749464
ISBN 13: 9780674749467
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Compares market and centrally planned economics, looks at Third World industrial development, multi-national resource transfers, and immigration policies, and analyzes the economics of underdeveloped countries

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

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