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Social Limits to Growth. -- by Hirsch, Fred is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Social Limits to Growth. -- about?

This book suggests that the current impasse on a number of key issues in the political economy of advanced nations is attributable in part to an outmoded perspective on the nature, and therefore the promise, of economic growth. The critique has some important immediate-mainly negative-implications for policy, and it opens up a wide range of consequential policy issues. It is for the reader to judge whether the theme developed here has sufficient validity and promise to justify the further analysis and inquiry called for by the approach put forward. Although the book has been a long time in the making-five years from first outline to final typescript-it represents little more than a starting point. It is devoted essentially to the frame in which the issues are seen and to the inferences for policy that follow and that need further investigation. The support of the Twentieth Century Fund has made this book possible. The Fund financed my work from April 1972 until September 1974, while I was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. From its initial acceptance of the project through the slow journey to eventual completion, the Fund exercised unusual understanding and patience wit

Who reads Social Limits to Growth. --?

Author

Hirsch, Fred

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674813656

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Management, Business