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The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies
Title
The Poverty of progress : changing ways of life in industrial societies / edited by Ian Miles, John Irvine with Monica Wemegah, and Dag Poleszynski.
ISBN
0080289061 :
008027935X (pbk.)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
"Selected proceedings of two international conferences on 'alternative ways of life', organized by the Goals, Processes, and Indicators of Development Project of the United Nations University and by the Society for International Development, held in Cartigny, Switzerland, 1978, and Trappeto, Sicily, 1979."
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Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / John Irvine and Ian Miles
Why the concern with ways of life? / Johan Galtung, Dag Polsezynski, and Monica Wemegah
The 'abundant society' and world order / Steven Arnold and Denis Goulet
The dominant way of life in Switzerland / Monica Wemegah
The dominant way of life in Britain / John Irvine and Ian Miles
On ways of life in Poland / Andrzej Siciński
Alternative ways of life in the Netherlands / Anneke Schipper-van Otterloo and Peter Ester
Alternative ways of life in Denmark / Jens Falkentorp ... [et al.]
From things to experiences / Hidetoshi Kato
Another development for Europe in the 1980s / Richard Jolly
Establishing alternative ways of life / Ian Miles and John Irvine.
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