The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many, and Endangered the PlanetCouncil Oak Books, 1993 - 367 من الصفحات The premise of this book is that economic growth has made life considerably worse for people in Britain since 1955 and that, even if growth were beneficial at one stage in human history, it is now damaging. The book presents evidence of social and environmental damage caused by growth and several reasons for a persistence of growth in the face of this damage. It is proposed that the real reason growth has not been stopped is that economic systems would collapse if it did. The book looks at the effects of a policy of growth before and after the 1950s, how growth has effected national health and damaged family and community life, and the effects of growth on the environment (see especially chapter 11: "Growth in the Greenhouse"). Included is an examination of how the need for growth forces companies to adopt new technologies before their impact on the environment can be assessed, how politicians are more concerned about maintaining conditions in which economic growth is possible than holding the world's climate unchanged, the myth of sustainable growth, and a lack of morality governing the direction of economic change. A solution is proposed that involves adjusting the capitalist system. (LZ) |
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... hundred years , pro- vided they did not break the laws devised and developed by members of their own property - owning class , business people have had no responsibility to consider how their ventures would affect anyone or anything ...
... hundred years , pro- vided they did not break the laws devised and developed by members of their own property - owning class , business people have had no responsibility to consider how their ventures would affect anyone or anything ...
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... hundred largest companies steadily increased , as a table from Prais shows : Increase in market share by hundred largest firms , 1909-68 Year : % market share : 1909 1924 1935 1949 1953 1958 1963 1968 16 22 24 22 27 32 37 41 If firms ...
... hundred largest companies steadily increased , as a table from Prais shows : Increase in market share by hundred largest firms , 1909-68 Year : % market share : 1909 1924 1935 1949 1953 1958 1963 1968 16 22 24 22 27 32 37 41 If firms ...
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... Hundred largest companies 50 % of British market 40 30 20 10 Companies Plants 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1976 Source : Prais , 1981 Figure 6.3 Although the hundred largest British companies increased their share of the home ...
... Hundred largest companies 50 % of British market 40 30 20 10 Companies Plants 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1976 Source : Prais , 1981 Figure 6.3 Although the hundred largest British companies increased their share of the home ...
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Foreword by Edward Goldsmith | 1 |
Quality or Quantity? | 15 |
Growth and the National Health | 96 |
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