Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.