Economic growth enriches society.

Such are some of the axioms from which people start their economic thinking today. Dr. Mishan of the London School of Economics, who wrote the costs of economic growth. Examines twenty-one such elementary fallacies in this entertaining and instructive book. ‘It is important’, he writes, ‘that official complacency be ruffled a little and that post-war orthodoxies be exposed for the humbug they are.’

‘The perfect book for anyone wishing to start the study of economics’.