The liberalism of Warner and Palmer could be called adultism. The other policiesof a statist right or a statist left or for that matter a statist middleall treat adults as bad children or sad children. Poor things, poor things, theyre waiting to be fed. On the contrary, adults are to be accorded the dignity of the equal presumption of liberty and citizen-based democratic political principles You need this lucid and eloquent book. Read it, right away. No time to waste .
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, adjunct in classics and philosophy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Read this book and you will be introduced to new perspectives on the power of local knowledgerooted in human experienceto fuel sustainable development and to generate the socio-economic wealth of nations.
Vernon L. Smith,Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
Development with Dignity is an outstanding contribution to the public discourse addressing the intimate relationships between universal rights, human dignity, and economic prosperity. Adam Smiths liberal plan of liberty, equality, and justice is restated and grounded in the latest research in the social sciences and humanities, and readers will learn of the power of entrepreneurship to improve lives for individuals as they are empowered to pursue productive specialization and realize social cooperation through mutually beneficial exchange. As a result, these individuals experience greater freedom and prosperity. Palmer and Warner have produced a must-read book dealing with the most fundamental and important question in the social sciences.
Peter Boettke, George Mason University, USA
Development with Dignity
At a time when the global development industry is under more pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity.
Unable to adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local institutions, todays outsider-led development interventions continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from wasteful to even harmful. This book shows that increased prosperity can only be achieved when people are valued as self-governing agents. Social orders that recognize autonomy and human dignity unleash enormous productive energy. This in turn leads to the mobilization of knowledge-sharing that is critical to innovation and localized problem-solving. Offering a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives and specific examples from the field showing these ideas in action, this book provides NGOs, multilateral institutions, and donor countries with practical guidelines for implementing dignity-first development.
Compelling and engaging, with a wide range of recommendations for reforming development practice and supporting liberal democracy, this book will be an essential read for students and practitioners of international development.
Tom G. Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network, where he holds the George M. Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty. He is also a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
Matt Warner is president of Atlas Network and the editor of Poverty and Freedom: Case Studies on Global Economic Development (2019).
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This is a dynamic and inspiring series for all those engaged with todays debates surrounding development issues, whether they be students, scholars, policy makers, or practitioners internationally. These interdisciplinary books provide an invaluable resource for discussion in advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in development studies as well as in anthropology, economics, politics, geography, media studies, and sociology.
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Development with Dignity
Self-determination, Localization, and the End to Poverty
Tom G. Palmer and Matt Warner
Cover image: Dinesh Dixit, photo by Bernat Parera
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Names: Palmer, Tom G., author. | Warner, Matt, author.
Title: Development with dignity: self-determination, localization, and theend to poverty / Tom G. Palmer and Matt Warner.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021041225 (print) | LCCN 2021041226 (ebook) |ISBN 9781032135649 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032135632 (paperback) |ISBN 9781003229872 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Economic developmentMoral andethical aspectsDeveloping countries.
Classification: LCC HD75 .P34 2022 (print) | LCC HD75 (ebook) |DDC 338.9009172/4dc23/eng/20211109
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021041225
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003229872
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About the authors
- Tom G. Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network where he holds the George M. Yeager Chair for Advancing Liberty. He is also a senior fellow at Cato Institute. Before joining Cato, he was a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Until the pandemic he traveled extensively to work with NGOs promoting liberal democracy and locally led economic development, which he had been doing since before the end of the USSR and its empire. He has published in journals such as the