Ezra J. Mishan (November 15, 1917 - September 22, 2014) on Workers and Society(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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“The more affluent a society is the more covetous it needs to be. Keep a man covetous -- 'achievement-motivated' is the approved term -- and he may kept running hard to the last day of his life.”
Source: "The Costs of Economic Growth," by Ezra J. Mishan, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, 1967. Part Three, Digression, Part A: Introduction, Pages 122-123.
"The Costs of Economic Growth," by Ezra J. Mishan, Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, 1967.
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