Isbn: 9780887382598 - passage to a human world (5 risultati)

vg+ soft cover, tight & clean copy. index. 1st (NAP) edition. Binding is paper covers.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condizione: Fair. Anmerkungen / beschriftet / Stempel; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. "Singer convincingly demonstrates that econ-omic growth is the central reality of the modern era. His arguments are sometimes subtle, but he walks the reader through them with schematized subheadings, summaries, and relentless patience." --Peter Brimelow, The Wall Street Journal Responding to the Club of Rome's Limit to Growth and its successors, Singer argues that the dominant characteristic of the modern era is almost completely the world's passage, in the few centuries surrounding our own, from poverty to wealth. This rapid transformation in the condition of human life--from poor to wealthy, from nature-dominated to human--dominated is described here, as are the reasons why it has been largely ignored.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Second Printing. 390 pp. Appears unread. Examines the concerns over environmental degredation and finite resources, explaining why the doomsayers ar wrong, and showing that we are heading for a world of plenty. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

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