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The hegemony of growth : the OECD and the making of the economic growth paradigm /
In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
New York : Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Paradigm in the making: the emergence of economic growth as the key economic policy norm (1948
- 1959)
- 1. Measuring growth: the international standardization of national income accounting
- 2. Propagating growth: from reconstruction and stability to "selective expansion" and "productivity"
- 3. "Expand or die": international economic mandarins and the transnational harmonization of growth policies
- pt. II Paradigm at work: a "temple of growth for industrialized countries" in action (1960
- 1968)
- 4. Power, progress, and prosperity: growth as universal yardstick and the OECD's 1961 growth target in perspective
- 5. Boosting growth: the Western "growth conscience" and social engineering in the name of accelerated growth
- 6. Replicating growth: the "development of others" and the hegemony of donor countries
- pt. III Paradigm in discussion: the "problems of modern society," environment, and welfare (1969
- 1974)
- 7. Quantity in question: challenging the hegemony of growth and the OECD-Club of Rome nexus
- 8. Reclaiming growth: organizational dynamics and the "dialectic" of qualitative growth
- 9. Quantifying quality: managing the environmental costs of growth and the difficult quest for "gross national well-being."