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Illich's Theories On The Effectiveness Of Cars, Air Travel, And Energy Showed That Industrial Progress Actually Hampers The Speed And Effectiveness We Have As People Who Were Born Capable Of Walking To Our Desired Destinations. Roads, Airports, Stations, Traffic Jams, All Take Away The Benefits Of Using Complicated Engineered Methods Of Travel, And Make Our Actual Travel Times Longer-- Each Of The Four Essays Printed Here Was Written For A Specific Occasion And Together Comprise Only The Smallest Selection From A Larger Corpus Questioning Commodity And Energy-intensive Economies. The Essays Are Presented Thematically Instead Of Chronologically To Offer A Better View Of The Sweep Of Illich's Argument. In The First Two, War Against Subsistence And Shadow Work, Illich Reveals Both The Ruins On Which The Economy Is Built And The Blindness Of Economics Which Cannot But Fail To See It. The Second Two Essays, Energy And Equity And The Social Construction Of Energy, Unearth The Nineteenth Century Invention And Subsequent Consequences Of 'energy' Thought Of As The Unseen Cause Of All 'work' Whether Done By Steam Engines, Humans, Or Trees. The Science Of Ecology Relies On This Assumption And

Author

Ivan Illich; Jerry Brown; Sajay Samuel

Publisher

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780714523606

Subjects

Management, Business