In Praise of Slowth: or The Agathotopian Treatment of the Environment as a Common National Asset

James Meade

Chapter 6 in Liberty, Equality and Efficiency, 1993, pp 234-248 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1955 my wife founded a society which she called SPES or ‘The Society for the Promotion of Economic Slowth’. Its purposes was to spread a ray of hope in a world in which the physical environment was being pillaged and in which the social and political environment urged us all to strive to possess a number of goods which we did not really need and which we packaged and dissipated in the most wasteful manner. The society has flourished with its valuable, indeed unique, membership; and I am now myself faced with the difficult decision whether I should apply for membership with, I admit, the ambition of becoming its economic adviser.

Keywords: Marginal Product; Average Cost; Total Welfare; Money Income; Happy People (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13084-9_6

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