Bauer rejected the premise of equal human economic capacity underpinning the NIEO.
Evidence
Underpinning the NIEO, Bauer identified a fundamental and unjustified ‘belief in the natural equality of man as an economic performer’. Rejecting this premise, he argued that political action to equalise living standards ‘implies extensive forcible remodelling of peoples and societies, far-reaching coercion, and wholesale politicisation of life’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 435
Categorization
- DEFINE: Identifies a core premise in the market-ethics debate: whether humans are equal as economic performers.
- SEED: Article angle: the unexamined empirical premise of the equality-of-capacity claim and what evidence (or lack of it) backs rejection vs. acceptance.
- XREF: connects to: Bauer rejected GDP per capita statistics as misleading measures of development — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1316
Broader Connections
- Bauer rejected GDP per capita statistics as misleading measures of development
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1316