The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many, and Endangered the PlanetGreen Books, 1992 - 367 من الصفحات The idea that economic growth is beneficial is deeply rooted in Western culture and forms the basis of the economic strategies of all major British political parties. The author shows in this book, the reality is that in recent years the negative effects of growth have far outweighed the positive. |
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... rest of the population if they are not to become an underclass . In other words , the sectors that made them redundant still have to provide for them , unless they are banished overseas in the way that the Irish economy has dealt with ...
... rest of the population if they are not to become an underclass . In other words , the sectors that made them redundant still have to provide for them , unless they are banished overseas in the way that the Irish economy has dealt with ...
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... rest of Europe . It would be a policy of despair to accept that our costs of production must permanently be higher than those of other European countries . Our level of real incomes depends on our competitive efficiency . If that must ...
... rest of Europe . It would be a policy of despair to accept that our costs of production must permanently be higher than those of other European countries . Our level of real incomes depends on our competitive efficiency . If that must ...
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... rest of Europe . Yet , as he himself made clear , there was no evidence that any really good project had been stifled for lack of funds and there was little demand for capital from the private sector . " The real shortage is of ideas ...
... rest of Europe . Yet , as he himself made clear , there was no evidence that any really good project had been stifled for lack of funds and there was little demand for capital from the private sector . " The real shortage is of ideas ...
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Introduction | 4 |
Quality or Quantity? | 15 |
Ill Fares the Land | 33 |
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