Summary of Jason L Riley's Maverick

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Peter Bauer, a highly regarded economist, was a critic of the conventional thinking that poverty can only be solved by a combination of government planning and financial assistance from developed countries. Instead, Bauer believed that poverty could be solved by individuals and their own countries.



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The author was a guest at the conference, and Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, two other prominent economists, participated in a discussion on Lord William Bauer’s legacy.