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Death of Industrial Civilization

The Limits to Economic Growth and the Repoliticization of Advanced Industrial Society

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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The Death of Industrial Civilization explains how the contemporary ecological crisis within industrial society is caused by the values inherent in unlimited economic growth and competitive materialism. Kassiola shows that the limits-to-growth critique of industrial civilization is the most effective stance against what seems to be a dominant and invincible social order. He prescribes the social changes that must be implemented in order to transform industrial society into a sustainable and more satisfying one.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1990-08-14
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Environmental Public Policy
Antal sidor297
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791403525

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Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Part I Advanced Industrial Society in Crisis: Experiencing the Consequences of Economic Growth Addiction1 The Contemporary Industrial Crisis and the Limits-to-Growth Controversy2 The Death of Industrial IllusionsPart II Modern Economics as the Reductionism of Politics3 The Modern Rise of Economics and the Demise of Politics4 Industrial Economic Reductionism: Depoliticization through the Addiction to Unlimited Growth5 Liberalism and the Economic Reductionism of Politics6 The Concept of "Relative Wealth": A Social Limit to Growth that Destroys the Addiction to Growth and Spurs RepoliticizationPart III The Values of Industrialism: Unlimited Competitive Materialism and the Normative Limits to Growth7 Beyond the Biophysical Limits to Growth: Assessing Industrial Values8 Materialism and Modern Political PhilosophyPart IV Transindustrial Values: Replacing the Addiction to Unlimited Economic Growth with Nonmaterialism, Noncompetition, Participatory Democracy and Community9 Social Transformation into a Transindustrial Community10 Conclusion: Towards a New Transindustrial SocietyNotesBibliographyIndex

"Kassiola swims against the stream of modern thought, not only challenging its current course, but pointing in new directions and urging others to join the rethinking process." — Lester W. Milbrath"It fills a void in the literature on the future of industrial growth by synthesizing a tremendous amount of material into a coherent package. …a first-rate book of intellectual brilliance." — Dennis Pirages