Notes on the Social Limits to Growth

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 21 in Selected Essays on Economic Policy, 2001, pp 284-292 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract These notes are intended to pose more questions than they provide answers to. They are prompted by an important book, the Social Limits to Growth, published by a lifelong socialist, Fred Hirsch (1977) the year before he died; and they draw on three stimulating and challenging reviews of Hirsch’s work: the first by Robin Matthews (1977); the second by Anthony Clunies Ross (1977) in a review article of Hirsch’s book and Hugh Stretton’s (1976) Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment; and the third by Don Lamberton (1977). As I have said, Hirsch was always a socialist; moreover, he knew an incredible amount about the detailed workings of the financial institutions of modern capitalist economies. I believe that his views should be accorded respect and that they are of great relevance to those of us who are thinking about the nature of economic growth and the role it has to play in the transition to a more just and equitable society.

Keywords: Real Income; Invisible Hand; Moral Sentiment; Social Limit; Positional Good (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230510562_21

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