Social Limits to Growth

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Summary

Fred 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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Preface
Foreword
Introduction: The Argument in Brief	p. 1
The Neglected Realm of Social Scarcity
A Duality in the Growth Potential	p. 15
The Material Economy and the Positional Economy	p. 27
The Ambiguity of Economic Ouptut	p. 55
The Commercialization Bias
The Economics of Bad Neighbors	p. 71
The New Commodity Fetishism	p. 84
The Commercialization Effect: The Sexual Illustration	p. 95
A First Summary: The Hole in the Affluent Society	p. 102
The Depleting Moral Legacy
An Overload on the Mixed Economy	p. 117
Political Keynesianism and the Managed Market	p. 123
The Moral Re-entry	p. 137
The Lost Legitimacy and the Distributional Compulsion	p. 152
Perspective and Conclusions
The Liberal Market as a Transition Case	p. 161
Inferences for Policy	p. 178
References	p. 193
Index	p. 203
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