Social Limits to Growth - Softcover

Hirsch, Fred

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ISBN 10: 1583485996 ISBN 13: 9781583485996

Publisher: iUniverse, 1999

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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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"...A valuable resource for all scientifically minded clinical psychologists as well as for all other scientific psychologists... the book provides excellent analyses of philosophy of science, the history of science, behavior genetics, descriptive psychopathology, and multivariate statistics ...Superb."-Scott Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Emory University "This volume does not just reproduce his good work, but it offers lots of extra 'goodies' like exercises, explanations, and the video."-David Rindskopf, Ph.D. Graduate Center, City University of New York

Synopsis:

Fred Hirsch's classic exposition of the social limits to growth manages to connect many of the apparently disparate factors that blight modern life.

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