Background
Mishan, Ezra Joshua was born on November 15, 1917 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. Son of David Ezra and Freda Mishan.
( First published in 1967, The Costs of Economic Growth w...)
First published in 1967, The Costs of Economic Growth was based on the central conviction that the official figures for growth in real income were entirely compatable with a decline in human welfare. Twenty-five years later, this work remains the most persuasive and systematic demolition of the religion of growth yet published, its arguments only reinforced by the growing social and environmental problems of the late twentieth century. For this new edition, the text has been revised and updated in the light of recent global perils and environmental degradation.
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( First published in 1980, Pornography, Psychedelics and ...)
First published in 1980, Pornography, Psychedelics and Technology: Essays on the Limits to Freedom focuses on the crucial connections between technological growth and the more salient features of social malaise in the latter part of the twentieth century. Professor Mishan is one of the few economists absorbed by the larger social questions, and does not believe that the growth in state intervention and the decline of social liberty are simply the result of intellectual confusion and bureaucratic momentum. He sees them as unavoidable consequences of scientific and technical progress. While agreeing with many of his fellow economists in acknowledging the virtues of a competitive market economy, Professor Mishan is acutely aware of its limitations. Following the growth of self-styled liberation movements, seen as manifestations of a move towards a world of greater individual emancipation and fulfilment, the author nevertheless groups such movements together with the rising indices of violence, suicide, family breakdown and hooliganism, which have become indicative of a growing disorientation and social disintegration. These developments and the hazards they entail, however, are bound up with the rapid scientific and technological progress of the post-war world.
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(When this textbook was first published in 1971, the techn...)
When this textbook was first published in 1971, the technique of cost-benefit analysis was scarcely recognized; nowadays it is an essential framework for any study of welfare economics, and continues to generate much controversy, concerned as it is with the fundamental principles on which our society operates. Over three editions the author has tested new ideas and principles against his original methodology, and revised and incorporated material to ensure that it remains one of the most thorough introductions to the subject yet available. Central to the appeal of the book is the lucid explanation of key concepts, and the simple, yet effective expository device of short chapters which encourages steady progress through the book.
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This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a collection of case-studies in cost-benefit analysis, of which there had been already several in use employing techniques of varying degrees of sophistication. Nor is it a manual of instruction with particular orientation for less developed counties, such as those produced under the auspices of the U.N. and the O.E.C.D. What this volume does attempt is to introduce the student of economics to the logic and the concepts used in cost-benefit analysis.
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Mishan, Ezra Joshua was born on November 15, 1917 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. Son of David Ezra and Freda Mishan.
Bachelor, University Manchester, 1946. Master of Science, London School of Economics, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1951.
From lecturer to professor London School of Economics, 1956-1977. Retired, 1984; lecturer New York, Bangkok, Jerusalem, Berlin, Cairo, Luxembourg, since 1984. Visiting professor several universities, 1969-1983.
Consultant cost-benefit analysis area, 1965-1980.
(When this textbook was first published in 1971, the techn...)
( First published in 1980, Pornography, Psychedelics and ...)
(This book, which was first published in 1972, is not a co...)
( First published in 1986, Economic Myths and the Mytholo...)
( First published in 1967, The Costs of Economic Growth w...)
(Introduction to Normative Economics [Paperback])
(Great vintage economic growth book!)
Author: The Cost of Economic Growth, 1967, 21 Popular Economic Fallacies, 1969, Cost-Benefit Analysis, 1971, Normative Economics, 1980, Pornography, Psychedelics, and Technology, 1981, Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics, 1985, many other books. Contributor over 100 articles to professional journals.
The bulk of my contributions to the professional journals are in the area of resource allocation and evaluation with emphasis on basic concepts. This interest continues and is supplemented by a growing concern with topics of increasing controversy, which finds expression in the more popular journals such as Encounter. Topics include pollution, economic growth, inflation, multiracialism, immigration, psychedelics, pornography, feminism and the pretensions of economists.
With Royal Air Force, 1939-1944.
Figure sculpture, body-building, swimming.
Married Rayzil Blesofsky. Children: David, Freda, Joseph, Rachel.