Ezra J. Mishan (aka "Edward"; 15 November 1917 – 22 September 2014) was an English economist best known for his work criticising
economic growth
In economics, economic growth is an increase in the quantity and quality of the economic goods and Service (economics), services that a society Production (economics), produces. It can be measured as the increase in the inflation-adjusted Outp ...
. Between 1956 and 1977 he worked at the
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. The school specialises in the social sciences. Founded ...
where he became Professor of Economics. In 1965, while at the LSE, he wrote his seminal work ''The Costs of Economic Growth'', but was unable to find a publisher until 1967. In this work he expanded on his original 1960 thesis which stated that the ''“precondition of sustained growth is sustained discontent”'', warning developing nations that ''“the thorny path to industrialisation leads, after all, only to the waste land of Subtopia”''.
Veldman, Meredith, ''Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain'', Cambridge University Press, 1994
pp 252-8. ''The Costs of Economic Growth'' presaged many of the concerns of the Green movement
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. Wall 2010. p. 12-13. It ...
that followed.
See also
* Degrowth
Degrowth is an Academic research, academic and social Social movement, movement critical of the concept of economic growth, growth in Real gross domestic product, gross domestic product as a measure of Human development (economics), human and econ ...
Bibliography
''Welfare Economics'', Random House, 1964.
''The Costs of Economic Growth'', Staples Press, 1967.
''21 Popular Economic Fallacies'', Allen Lane, 1969.
* ''Growth:The Price We Pay'', Staples Press, 1969.
''Cost-Benefit Analysis'', Allen & Unwin, 1971.
''Pornography, Psychedelics and Technology: Essays on the Limits to Freedom'', Allen & Unwin, 1980.
''Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics'', Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1986.
''Thirteen Persistent Economic Fallacies'', Praeger, 2009.
* ''Technological unemployment: Why there are hard times ahead'', Political Quarterly, 1996.
References
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1917 births
People educated at Manchester Grammar School
Ecological economists
English economists
Academics of the London School of Economics
2014 deaths