ABSTRACT
P. T. Bauer's views as a social scientist must be deduced largely from the character of his criticism of others and his observations on particular cases. Bauer belongs, in good part, with the Lionel Robbins-Friedrich Hayek tradition at the London School of Economics and the Milton Friedman tradition at the University of Chicago. Bauer's weakness as a social scientist and analyst of development is that he has never organized his more subtle perceptions about societies as a whole and related them systematically to the economic process. Development is a process involving every dimension of a society; and economic development policy must respect that fact. In attacking Mazrui or the promulgators of the New International Economic Order or their various Western sympathizers, Bauer is not dealing with the serious actors in the drama of modernization.
