Progress and the Invisible Hand - Couverture rigide

Bronk, Richard

 
9780316643771: Progress and the Invisible Hand
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0316643777 ISBN 13 : 9780316643771
Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 1998

Synopsis

What is "progress"? In Richard Bronk's analytic study of this concept, he separates the material progress of a nation from the more problematic progress in human happiness and welfare. He wonders how a feel-bad factor can exist in a country with a steadily increasing GDP. Bronk then looks at other times and mind-sets (the Ancient World, the Early Christian, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment) to discover why their particular economic progress eventually failed, or (in the case of the Enlightenment) was ultimately successful. Among the conditions which he believes must be met before a belief in, and drive towards progress can result include: experience of positive change in one lifetime; knowledge of, but critical relationship with, the past and faith in the power of human reason and skills to engineer and control change. The text questions many of the basic assumptions behind our headlong pursuit of progress and may provoke and disquiet in equal measure.

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Éditeur
Little, Brown & Company
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0316643777
ISBN 13 
9780316643771
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0751526606 ISBN 13 :  9780751526608
Editeur : Time Warner Paperbacks, 1999
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