The Runaway Economy: The Rhetoric is Growth, The Issue is Freedom - Softcover

Schneider, Kenneth

 
9780595318933: The Runaway Economy: The Rhetoric is Growth, The Issue is Freedom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0595318932 ISBN 13: 9780595318933
Verlag: iUniverse, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

After centuries of accelerating growth, the economy continues to be promoted for endless growth when the effects increasingly become economically counterproductive, ecologically devastating, and socially generated crises. Yet society, Kenneth Schneider demonstrates poignantly, continues to seek blind, endless, and reckless growth-leaving in waste vast human possibilities not attainable through personal expenditures. Once the standard of living reaches affluence, continued growth becomes increasingly destructive and economically suicidal, confining the human career to productions and wastefully generated consumption. As it expands, the economy increases its control over society, dominating urban form, education, the media, and social imagination. Rather than freeing people, the increased economic wealth offers vast promotional for business to control human behavior-note that advertising multiplied forty-fold from 1950 to 2000. Schneider stresses how society must fundamentally redirect human thought and economic power to fulfill specific social purposes that constitutes human progress.

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Verlag
iUniverse
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0595318932
ISBN 13 
9780595318933
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
662
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