Books by Peter T. Bauer

1. Peter Bauer is underrated .  He was a brilliant development economist who wrote seminal early and detailed books on the rubber sector and also networks of West African trade .  He also recognized the importance of the informal sector early on.  He then moved into a more polemic mode, writing books on market-oriented development strategies and very critical of foreign aid.  I believe at the time he was largely correct about foreign aid, though I would recognize also that since then the quality...