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Social limits to growth / Fred Hirsch ; [with a new foreword by Tibor Scitovsky].

Title
  1. Social limits to growth / Fred Hirsch ; [with a new foreword by Tibor Scitovsky].
Published by
  1. London : Routledge, [1995], c1976.
Author
  1. Hirsch, Fred.

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Description
  1. xvii, 208 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Income distribution
  2. Economic development > Social aspects
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction: The Argument in Brief -- I. The Neglected Realm of Social Security. 2. A Duality in the Growth Potential -- 3. The Material Economy and the Positional Economy -- 4. The Ambiguity of Economic Output -- II. The Commercialization Bias. 5. The Economics of Bad Neighbours -- 6. The New Commodity Fetishism ; Appendix -- The Commercialization Effect: The Sexual Illustration -- 7. A First Summary: The Hole in the Affluent Society -- III. The Depleting Moral Legacy. 8. An Overload on the Mixed Economy -- 9. Political Keynesianism and the Managed Market -- 10. The Moral Re-entry -- 11. The Lost Legitimacy and the Distributional Compulsion -- IV. Perspective and Conclusions. 12. The Liberal Market as a Transitional Case -- 13. Inferences for Policy.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (193-202) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain