What do you think?
Rate this book


208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
"In sum, rising national productivity entails an increase in individual need for income to secure certain satisfactions earlier attainable at lower income ... But this increase in material goods will be accompanied by frustration of rising demands for satisfactions dependent on relative position [since] relative position affects what we get as well as what we feel."
"The problem here is that the pursuit of private and essentially individualistic economic goals by enterprises, consumers, and workers in their market choices -- the distinctive capitalistic values that give the system its drive -- must be girded at key points by a strict social morality which the system erodes rather than sustains."
"The growth alternative is inherently less divisive ... it offers the possibility of consensus action, of a game with winners but no absolute losers ... limiting the political choice to distributing the increment, rather than demanding the more fundamental political act of redistributing existing resources."