Angus Deaton: «lDevelopment aid is cynical» – Swiss Television SRF
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Angus Deaton’s The Great Escape channels P.T. Bauer
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Can the Free Market End Global Poverty? Joseph Stiglitz vs. William Easterly
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P.T. Bauer on beggars in India
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PT Bauer on wealth and power
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Tyler Cowen on Peter Bauer
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P.T. Bauer on @BernieSanders extending #fightfor15 to entire Third World!
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India tried that in the 1950s as part of its five-year plans. It did not work that well. Bauer said that in development economics there is a “need to restate the obvious.”
Source: Ending the Race to the Bottom – Bernie Sanders.
Source: Indian Economic Policy and Development – P. T. Bauer (1959) – Google Books
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