Development without destruction: economics of the spinning wheel

By:

Joshi, Nandini

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ahemdabad; Navajivan Pub.; 1992Description: 211 pISBN:

8172290055

Subject(s):

Economic development

DDC classification:

338.9 JOS

Summary: Development Without Destruction argues for and lays down a new economic paradigm, an alternative development strategy, aiming at both prosperity and peace. In place of the prevailing economic system of mass production for global markets, which is unsustainable in any case, it advocates a system of local production for local market, revitalising villages. Such a system alone can bring about full employment, thus fulfilling the basic condition of growth. economic By highlighting human values in economics, the analysis sets forth as its objective freedom and non-violence, along with economic growth, as against the conventional thrust on aggressive race for material accumulation. The book attempts to go beyond analysing the prevailing crisis and pleads for the strategy of the spinning wheel for overcoming it. It also discusses steps for the implementation of the strategy at the grassroot level.

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Development Without Destruction argues for and lays down a new economic paradigm, an alternative development strategy, aiming at both prosperity and peace.
In place of the prevailing economic system of mass production for global markets, which is unsustainable in any case, it advocates a system of local production for local market, revitalising villages. Such a system alone can bring about full employment, thus fulfilling the basic condition of growth. economic

By highlighting human values in economics, the analysis sets forth as its objective freedom and non-violence, along with economic growth, as against the conventional thrust on aggressive race for material accumulation. The book attempts to go beyond analysing the prevailing crisis and pleads for the strategy of the spinning wheel for overcoming it. It also discusses steps for the implementation of the strategy at the grassroot level.

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