E. J. Mishan
Ezra J. Mishan (aka "Edward", born 1917, Manchester, England) is an English economist best known for his work criticising economic growth. Between 1956 and 1977 he worked at the London School of Economics where he became Professor of Economics. In 1965, while at the LSE, he wrote his seminal work The Costs of Economic Growth,[1] but was unable to find a publisher until 1967.[2] In this work he expanded on his original 1960 thesis[3] which stated that the “precondition of sustained growth is sustained discontent”, warning developing nations that “the thorny path to industrialisation leads, after all, only to the waste land of Subtopia”.[4] The Costs of Economic Growth presaged many of the concerns of the Green movement that followed.
See also
Degrowth
Bibliography
- Welfare Economics, Random House, 1964.
- The Costs of Economic Growth, Staples Press, 1967.
- 21 Popular Economic Fallacies, Allen Lane, 1969.
- Cost-Benefit Analysis, Allen & Unwin, 1971.
- Pornography, Psychedelics and Technology: Essays on the Limits to Freedom, Allen & Unwin, 1980.
- Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics, Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1986.
- Thirteen Persistent Economic Fallacies, Praeger, 2009.
References
- ^ Mishan, Ezra J., The Costs of Economic Growth, Staples Press, 1967.
- ^ Interview with Derek Turner published in The Social Contract, Fall 2006
- ^ “Review of The Economics of Underdevelopment”, Economica 27 (May 1960).
- ^ Veldman, Meredith, Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp 252-8.
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