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... nomic system from our own lives as an independent factor ; next we impute the guilt for the difficulties around us to this factor ; and finally we delude ourselves into the belief that we go scot- free by sending this " scapegoat " into ...
... nomic system from our own lives as an independent factor ; next we impute the guilt for the difficulties around us to this factor ; and finally we delude ourselves into the belief that we go scot- free by sending this " scapegoat " into ...
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... nomic life as a whole . To return to our earlier image , the circle representing the government now shifts even further under the one representing industrial life . 88. It is very revealing that in Keynes ' analysis a lopsided ...
... nomic life as a whole . To return to our earlier image , the circle representing the government now shifts even further under the one representing industrial life . 88. It is very revealing that in Keynes ' analysis a lopsided ...
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... nomic and technological expansion takes place and which in the final analysis furnishes the material possibilities for such expan- sion . We can employ an analogy here : a spaceship may be equipped with the most reliable rocket engines ...
... nomic and technological expansion takes place and which in the final analysis furnishes the material possibilities for such expan- sion . We can employ an analogy here : a spaceship may be equipped with the most reliable rocket engines ...
Contents
THE RAZING OF | 1 |
THE BARRIER OF CHURCH AND HEAVEN | 10 |
EVALUATIVE INTERMEZZO | 33 |
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Adam Smith adjusted barrier become capitalism capitalist century Christian Club of Rome competition consciousness consumer consumption context continual counterculture deism Dennis Gabor direction disclosure of society domination economic growth economic progress economic system Egbert Schuurman energy Enlightenment enterprise entire environment ethics existing faith in progress forces freedom future Gabor Galbraith goal gold standard happiness Herman Dooyeweerd humanist Ibid Idea of Progress ideal increase industrial revolution inflation influence Karl Löwith Keynes labor laissez-faire limits lives Marcuse market economy Marx means medieval ment modern money supply nations natural law nomic norms paradise Peter Gay philosopher political possible present problems production prog question raw materials relationship Renaissance respect responsibility result role scientific sector social order social structures solution technical tion tunnel society unemployment utilitarian wages western culture western society William Irwin Thompson York