Word: bauers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bauer also refuses to acknowledge, that his economic policies could have unfortunate social consequences. Nations which have followed the agricultural product or raw-material based path that he advocates have often found themselves with repressive political systems needed to maintain societies in which there are few rich and many poor. Overly careful adherence to Adam Smith often Produces Anastasia Somoza...
...most pernicious aspect of Reality and Rhetoric is Bauer's view of culture. The process of development he indicates requires that poorer nations surrender their culture and accept that of the West. This treatment of one of the major non-economic issues of development is cavalier at best. Whereas for Bauer culture may mean nothing more than the ability to accept capitalism others have a richer conception...
...chauvinism is particularly evident in his discussion of the importance of ethnic discussion of the importance of ethnic minorities in African development While it would be difficult to understate the role prayed by groups such as the Lebanese in the poor nations of West Africa, the praise that Bauer heaps on these successful businessmen reveals that his view of culture extends to little more than the ability to turn a profit...
...What Bauer offers is Reaganomics for the Third World, with all the simplistic faith in market solutions of its American relative. But no one is quite so arrogant as to suggest that there is nobody starring in Africa or Latin America in nations where so many people live at the brink of subsistence, there is little patience with policies which endorse present suffering for a rosier future. In the short run, many...
...While Bauer points out many. Third problems he tails to convince the reader that his solutions are better than anyone else's. Along the way his faulty analysis underscores the weaknesses of narrow. Purely economic approach to the problems of the Third World. Bauer's analysis ultimately does not use above the level of verbiage in a field long on words but short on solutions. P. T. Bauer is happy to be a voice in the wilderness. Now if only he would top howling...