num_pages: 241
description: The Development Frontier illustrates author Peter Bauers characteristic approach in which economic analysis is allied with careful observation of the economic scene and economic processes in the less developed world. The book is further enriched by his understanding of the interplay between social and political factors and forces conventionally regarded as falling within the purview of economics. One of Bauers central themes is the crucial importance of traders in transforming subsistence and near-subsistence economies into exchange economies. In contrast to the conventional view that traders are parasitic Bauer views them as they encourage new wants convey information about new opportunities and help producers take advantage of these opportunities. Other major topics include internal trade in less developed countries occupational distribution and economic advance Third World debt price and income stabilization of primary producers and official resource transfers (foreign aid).
language: English
title: The Development Frontier: Essays in Applied Economics
publisher: Harvard University Press