Progress and the Invisible Hand: The Philosophy and Economics of Human Advance - Softcover
What is progress? In Richard Bronk's brilliant analytical study, he separates the material progress of a nation from the more problematic progress in human happiness and welfare. Questioning many of the basic assumptions behind our headlong pursuit of progress, Bronk's disquieting conclusion is that if we continue to destroy the necessary balance between social cooperation and individual pursuit of self-interest, that humanity will be left at the mercy of the market—condemned to be its slave rather than its master. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this book is of absorbing interest not only to economists and philosophers, but also to anyone who is worried about the direction in which society is moving.
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Born in New York and educated at Oxford, Richard Bronk previously worked as a financial analyst.
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'wide-ranging and thought-provoking...of absorbing interest not only to economists and philosophers but also to the man and woman in the street who is worried about the direction in which society is moving' John Gray, author of FALSE DAWN 'It is a good, wise book. It needs to be widely read.' CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS 'Persusasively argued and thought-provoking.' EURO BUSINESS 'Bronk's solutions of interventionalism, and of the re-insertion of moral and social values into the economic debate, provide a telling tract for our times.' OXFORD TODAY
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- PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0751526606
- ISBN 13 9780751526608
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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