Ezra J. Mishan (November 15, 1917 - September 22, 2014) on Economics and Consumerism(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Economist best Known for his Work Criticising Economic Growth
: An English economist best known for his work criticising economic growth. Between 1956 and 1977 he worked at the London School of Economics where he became Professor of Economics. In 1965, while at the LSE, he wrote his seminal work The Costs of Economic Growth, but was unable to find a publisher until 1967. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Sometimes, as a gesture of technical bravado, economists may add to the social cost of motorized traffic an estimate of the costs to the community of the number of fatal accidents by the felicitous device of reckoning the cost of a man killed as the loss of a potential future pecuniary contribution to the national product.”
Source: "The Costs of Economic Growth," by Ezra J. Mishan, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, 1967. Part Two, Chapter 8: External Diseconomies and Separate Facilities, Page 87.
"The Costs of Economic Growth," by Ezra J. Mishan, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, 1967.
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