Remembering Peter Bauer

o último número do Cato Journal é dedicado ao Professor Peter Bauer (1915-2002) e inclui artigos (entres outros) de Milton Friedman e Thomas Sowell, James M. Buchanan e Israel M. Kirzner.

The only sense in which trade is malign, Bauer argued, was in that its gains were diverted to state coffers and not to the private sector. Private entrepreneurs, he felt, were the engines of development and are very capable, in the Third World as much as the First, to engender development. It was states - Neo-Colonial and otherwise - that were hampering them and thus development as a whole. Western aid, Bauer argues, merely enables dirigiste governments to continue their destructive policies for years on end.

Outra leitura: "A Tribute to Peter Bauer" (IEA)