Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development

by Richard G Wilkinson

Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop - why some are primitive and others advanced. It demonstrates that the pursuit of progress is not the real driving force behind change. Economic development, it argues, is simply the escape route of societies caught in the ecological pincers of population growth and scarce resources. The author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032307102
• ISBN13: 9781032307107
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages