Growth Fetish

Growth Fetish

Editorial Reviews
Noam Chomsky
Right on target and badly needed.

Book Description
A wide-ranging, but thoroughly accessible, critique of the dominant political ideology and cultural sensibilities of the capitalist West. Its analysis centres on an unpicking of two foundational principles of capitalism: the need for economic growth and, secondarily, the importance of progress. Successive chapters explore and criticise key aspects of western society: consumerism, attitudes to work, government (especially ‘third way' social democracy) and our treatment of the environment. In the final chapter, the author gives a sketch of an alternative post-growth society.

Growth Fetish is a powerful and highly readable synthesis of critiques of Western society under capitalism from a variety of angles - economic, cultural, environmental, philosophical - and its range is impressive.

Growth Fetish

Growth Fetish,Clive Hamilton,Pluto Press,0745322506,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Consumer Behavior - General,Consumption (Economics),Development - Economic Development,Development - Sustainable Development,Economic Conditions,Economic development,Environmental aspects,Globalization,Politics - Current Events,Social aspects,Sustainable development,Development economics,Political economy,Social Science / Sociology / General

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