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<b>Ezra J. Mishan</b> (aka "<b>Edward</b>"; 15 November 1917
– 22 September 2014<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Mishan#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>)
was an English economist best known for his work criticising
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_growth"
title="Economic growth">economic growth</a>. Between 1956
and 1977 he worked at the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Economics"
title="London School of Economics">London School of
Economics</a> where he became Professor of Economics. In
1965, while at the LSE, he wrote his seminal work <i>The
Costs of Economic Growth</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2"
class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Mishan#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>
but was unable to find a publisher until 1967.<sup
id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Mishan#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup>
In this work he expanded on his original 1960 thesis<sup
id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Mishan#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup>
which stated that the <i>“precondition of sustained growth
is sustained discontent”</i>, warning developing nations
that <i>“the thorny path to industrialisation leads, after
all, only to the waste land of Subtopia”</i>.<sup
id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Mishan#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup>
<i>The Costs of Economic Growth</i> presaged many of the
concerns of the <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Politics"
class="mw-redirect" title="Green Politics">Green movement</a>
that followed.
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth" title="Degrowth">Degrowth</a>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11-08-2020 21:47, R.O. wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:a2c31311-96dc-36db-6400-75d0a6a8cec0@ziggo.nl"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/seventeen-one/tsc_17_1_mishan.pdf">https://www.thesocialcontract.com/pdf/seventeen-one/tsc_17_1_mishan.pdf</a>
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The Costs of Economic Growth
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By ez r a J. Mi S h a n
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Editor’s Note: Professor Mishan’s book, The Costs of Economic
Growth, was first published in 1967, and created a sensation. He
challenged the fundamental assumptions upon which the secular
religion of economic growth is based. Global perils, including
environmental damage on a vast scale, have confirmed the
originality and soundness of his critique. Here we include a brief
excerpt from his book.
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