Bauer mounted a critical attack on Myrdal’s development works

Evidence

The MPS Quarterly editor (Hunold) also alerted readers to “another article (by Bauer) … published in ‘Economic Journal’ … 1959 … , a splendidly written critical analysis of the ideas expressed in three books recently published by Gunnar Myrdal” (MPS Quarterly 1, 1959, 26). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1364

Categorization

• XREF: The Bauer–Myrdal clash over development economics mirrors the deeper MPS antipathy to Myrdal’s welfare-state Keynesianism — relevant to the wider ideological conflict. — connects to: Bauer championed private foreign investment and bourgeois virtues against development orthodoxy — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1321; Peter Bauer reframed development economics to prioritize markets over security concerns — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1334; Bauer’s once-heretical development views moved closer to mainstream economics than Myrdal’s — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1773

Broader Connections

• Bauer’s once-heretical development views moved closer to mainstream economics than Myrdal’s #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1773