{"id":17578,"date":"2012-10-03T08:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=17578"},"modified":"2012-10-03T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:21:12","slug":"the-limits-to-growth-and-a-little-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/03\/the-limits-to-growth-and-a-little-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"The limits to growth &#8211; and a little inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wolf <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/78e883fa-0bef-11e2-8032-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct&amp;ftcamp=crm\/email\/2012103\/nbe\/Comment\/product#axzz2881jWnHC\" target=\"_blank\">asks in the FT<\/a> this morning wheteher there are limits to growth.<\/p>\n<p>He's right to do so. But maybe a little behind the times. I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Costs-Economic-Growth-Pelican\/dp\/0140210903\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> when I was a sixth\u00a0former\u00a0in the mid 70s:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41LvAG8F4LL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If anything made me green, it did. And my copy looks just as battered as that one now.<\/p>\n<p>OK, there was also Small is Beautiful, but it wasn't as good as Mishan. As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._J._Mishan\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia notes of <\/a>Mishan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1965, while at the LSE, he wrote his seminal work\u00a0<em>The Costs of Economic Growth<\/em>,\u00a0but was unable to find a publisher until 1967.\u00a0In this work he expanded on his original 1960 thesis\u00a0which stated that the\u00a0<em>\u201cprecondition of sustained growth is sustained discontent\u201d<\/em>, warning developing nations that\u00a0<em>\u201cthe thorny path to industrialisation leads, after all, only to the waste land of Subtopia\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0<em>The Costs of Economic Growth<\/em>\u00a0presaged many of the concerns of the\u00a0Green movement\u00a0that followed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wolf asks in the FT this morning wheteher there are limits to growth. He&#8217;s right to do so. But maybe a little behind the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/10\/03\/the-limits-to-growth-and-a-little-inspiration\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}