By Gabriel A. Almond, Marvin Chodorow, Roy Harvey Pearce
Progress and Its Discontents assembles the perspectives on growth of a few of America's best humanists, scientists, and social scientists. mentioning dissatisfied expectancies of development in spheres from technological know-how to morals and politics, and the numerous difficulties created or left untouched by means of growth, the editors finish that the time period now not refers to "an inevitable series of advancements" yet relatively to "an aspiration and compelling obligation."
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