Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Development economist of Jewish descent; early critic of foreign aid and champion of market-led development
1915, Budapest, Hungary — 2002, London, England
Hungary · United Kingdom
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Peter Bauer (Lord Bauer) was a Hungarian-British development economist at the London School of Economics who challenged the postwar consensus by arguing that government-to-government foreign aid often harms poor countries and that trade, enterprise and markets drive development. Born into a Hungarian-Jewish family in Budapest, he emigrated to Britain, where his once-heterodox views became widely influential.
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Development economist of Jewish descent; early critic of foreign aid and champion of market-led development
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science
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