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Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development book cover

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Poverty and Progress An Ecological Model of Economic Development

By Richard G. Wilkinson Copyright 1973
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop – why some are primitive and others advanced. It demonstrates that the pursuit of progress is not the real driving force behind change. Economic development, it argues, is simply the escape route of societies caught in the ecological pincers... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Cultural Evolution 3. Ecological Equilibrium 4. Disequilibrium and the Stimulus to Development 5. The Structure of Development 6. The English Industrial Revolution 7. Innovation and Technical Consistency 8. American Economic Development 9. Industrial Societies: Production and Consumption.

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Richard G. Wilkinson

‘The work is rich in new perceptions and marked by a capacity for seeing things in their organic interrelations. It is also refreshingly free of jargon…’ The Times Educational Supplement

‘…a highly original thesis on economic development…I do not hesitate to call this book brilliant.’ Journal of Agricultural Economics

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