Social Limits to GrowthFred 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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The Argument in Brief | 1 |
A Duality in the Growth Potential | 15 |
The Material Economy | 27 |
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