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No signatures.; [vi], 207 pages. Page dimensions: 202 x 144mm. Cover title:"Excess Capital: How the fruits of human progress are destroying modern society and the environment". An anti-capitalist study. The author asks what happened to the"leisure society"which people in the 1970s were anticipating to arrive in the near future, thanks to modern technologies and advances in communications."This book describes how the demands of the profit motive push towards ever higher levels of work activity. The current emphasis on economic growth fails to consider the value of human existence and refuses to countenance any claim for a quality of life which would enjoy the fruits of human success. Instead Third World peoples have been pressured to borrow the excess moneys of the rich, and have become caught in a poverty trap, now paying more in interest charges than they receive in aid."- from blurb on rear wrapper. Selected chapter titles: The Paradox of Poverty and Plenty; Work and Well-Being; Science and Systems; Theories of Long Term Economic Cycles; The Impact of New Technology; The Rise of the New Right; The Human Costs; Global Models; The Collapse of the Centre; The Leisure Society Denied. ; 8vo
Excess Capital: Work to Destruction; The Shameless Stone in the Age of Sisyphus (John Robinson)
Author
John Robinson
Title
Excess Capital: Work to Destruction; The Shameless Stone in the Age of Sisyphus
Publisher name
Technology Monitoring Associates (1990), Martinborough [New Zealand]
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1990
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Soft cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d