Clive Hamilton: Growth Fetish

Abstract

Clive Hamilton provides an assault on free market ideology and the ‘depredations of neoliberalism’ in affluent countries. He alleges that ‘Laissez‐faire capitalism has been marked by devastating failures’ leading to ‘societies characterised by a pervading and deep‐rooted malaise’ (p.10). A move away from greed, materialism and money obsession to a more meaningful set of values based on family, community and social responsibility is the only path to emancipation. Humans have become consumption machines and the ‘great contradiction of the modern world’ is that:

Citation

Lodewijks, J. (2003), "Clive Hamilton: Growth Fetish", International Journal of Development Issues, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 91-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045836