Hirsch: Social Limits to Growth - Couverture rigide

Hirsch, Fred

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674813669 ISBN 13 : 9780674813663

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1976

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Social Limits to Growth sets forth a new view of the nature and the limitations of economic growth. The authors central argument is that there are indeed limits to growth currently exist and are essentially social rather than physical. As societies have become richer, an increasing proportion of the extra goods, services, and facilities sought by consumers cannot be acquired or used by all, without spoiling them for each other. So frustration is heightened by material affluence, which is why affluence does not make a satisfied society.This book offers important insight on apparently disconnected aspects of the current malaisesuch as alienation at work, the rat-race element in education, deterioration in city living, consumerist relationships with neighbors, friends, and sex partners, as well as accelerating rates of inflation and unemployment.

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0674813669
• ISBN 13: 9780674813663
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200