Volume 20, Number 5 · April 5, 1973
Can We Afford Sliced Eggplant?
By Jason Epstein
The Retreat from Riches: Affluence and Its Enemies
by Peter Passell, by Leonard Ross
Viking, 203 pp., $6.95
To read this decent and often reasonable book is to be struck by how tenaciously the world resists uplifting advice; to be reminded that philosophers will continue to interpret the world in various ways even though the real task, as Marx said, is to change it. Passell and Ross are liberal economists. They favor economic growth and oppose as their joint adversary both environmental and fiscal conservatives. Such men they consider timid aristocrats whose Tory enthusiasm for clean air and sound money masks a selfish attachment to privileges which sprawling factories and the inflation that comes with full employment might destroy.
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