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

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

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xvii, 208 p.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (193-202) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0415119588 (pbk.)

LCCN

gb^97018842^

OCLC

33893023

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Harvard Library