The Economics of human betterment
By: edited by Kenneth E. Boulding.
Contributors: Boulding, Kenneth Ewart, 1910-
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Economics -- Congresses; Welfare state -- Congresses; Progress -- Congresses; Quality of life -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: How do things go from bad to better? / Kenneth E. Boulding; title: Indicators of human betterment / Muriel Nissel; title: Growth, social innovation, and time use / Jonathan Gershuny; title: Technology, communications, economics and progress / David Simpson; title: Human betterment in a planned economy / Michael Kaser; title: Culture and economy / Radha Sinha; title: Economic development of Singapore since self-government in 1959 / Lim Chong-Yah; title: The concept of human betterment / Antony Flew; title: T.H. Marshall on the middle ground / David Reisman; title: The welfare state, economics, and morality / David Collard; title: The crisis of the welfare state-the Dutch experience / Michael Ellman.