TY - BOOK ID - 142819435 TI - The end of progress : how modern economics has failed us PY - 2011 SN - 0470830018 1119199298 1283239418 9786613239419 047083000X PB - Singapore : Wiley, DB - UniCat KW - Economic policy. KW - Economics KW - History. KW - 1900 - 2099 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142819435 AB - A cold, hard look at how modern economics has failed us and why we need a new measure of progress Modern economics has fallen short. It has widened the gap between rich and poor. It has not allocated the world's resources fairly. It has brought the West to the brink of financial ruin. It has placed short-term gain before long-term progress. And it has made us focus on the individual, not the society. The end result is a worldwide financial crisis of epic proportions and a planet being scraped clean of the resources needed by future generations, and things are only getting worse. ER -