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A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth.

Publication: The Canadian Geographer
Publication Date: 22-JUN-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth

by Wilfred Beckerman, The Independent Institute, Oakland (CA), 2002, xiii + 94 pp., paper US$17.95 (ISBN 0-945999-85-2)

This short book (76 pages of text) can best be summarized as Oxford University economist Wilfred Beckerman's chainsaw massacre of the key planks of the sustainable-development (SD) platform. As can be expected from the author of previous works such as In Defense of Economic Growth (1976) and Small Is Stupid (1995), Beckerman has little patience for what he considers 'pathetically muddled' thinking and political correctness. The result is a readable manifesto in which the author argues that the current widespread support for...

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