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

by Kenneth R. Schneider

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595318932
• ISBN13: 9780595318933
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"