Standing on each other's shoulders?: Some comments on social limits to growth

Standing on each other's shoulders?: Some comments on social limits to growth

Presented is a series of objections to F. Hirsch's book The Social Limits to Growth (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977) which demonstrate that Hirsch's central assertion -- that economic growth consists of no more than the process of inflation of the price of "scarce positional...

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Veröffentlicht in:Futures : the journal of policy, planning and futures studies planning and futures studies, 1978-01, Vol.10 (3), p.242-246
1. Verfasser: Gershuny, J.I.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Economic/Economics/Economical
Growth
Limit/Limits/Limited
Social
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Zusammenfassung:Presented is a series of objections to F. Hirsch's book The Social Limits to Growth (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977) which demonstrate that Hirsch's central assertion -- that economic growth consists of no more than the process of inflation of the price of "scarce positional goods" -- is fallacious. The political implications of the "social limits" argument are briefly explored. AA.
ISSN:0016-3287
1873-6378
DOI:10.1016/0016-3287(78)90106-4