Fred Hirsch

Social Limits to Growth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fred Hirsch's classic exposition of the social limits to growth manages to connect many of the apparently disparate factors that blight modern life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9781138834941
• ISBN-10: 1138834947
• Artikelnr.: 41250804

Autorenporträt

Fred Hirsch was formerly Professor of International studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He died in 1978.

Inhaltsangabe

Forward by Tibor Scitovsky. 1. Introduction Part I. The Neglected Realm of
Social Scarcity 2. A Duality in the Growth Potential 3. The Material
Economy and the Positional Economy 4. The Ambiguity of Economic Output
Part II. The Commercialization Bias 5. The Economics of Bad Neighbours 6.
The New Commodity Fetishism 7. A First Summary: The Hole in the Affluent
Society Part III. The Depleting Moral Legacy 8. An Overload on the Mixed
Economy 9. Political Keynesianism and the Managed Market 10. The Moral
Re-entry 11. The Lost Legitimacy and the Distributional Compulsion Part IV.
Perspective and Conclusions 12. The Liberal Market as a Transition Case 13.
Inferences for Policy

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Forward by Tibor Scitovsky. 1. Introduction Part I. The Neglected Realm of Social Scarcity 2. A Duality in the Growth Potential 3. The Material Economy and the Positional Economy 4. The Ambiguity of Economic Output Part II. The Commercialization Bias 5. The Economics of Bad Neighbours 6. The New Commodity Fetishism 7. A First Summary: The Hole in the Affluent Society Part III. The Depleting Moral Legacy 8. An Overload on the Mixed Economy 9. Political Keynesianism and the Managed Market 10. The Moral Re-entry 11. The Lost Legitimacy and the Distributional Compulsion Part IV. Perspective and Conclusions 12. The Liberal Market as a Transition Case 13. Inferences for Policy

Rezensionen

'Important books are rare. They are all the more welcome when they appear; and one need have no hesitation in naming as a classic Fred Hirsch's new analysis of the inherent defects of the market economy as an instrument of human amelioration.' - Peter Jay, The Times

'An exceptionally interesting, original, and well-written book on one of the most important themes: what are the fruits of economic growth and why do they seem increasingly disappointing?' - The Economic Journal

'This highly original book makes a compelling argument that affluence, by creating a kind of congestion (much more than simple crowding), limits the welfare attainable by society as a whole.' - Foreign Affairs