Forty Years Later. The Reception of the Limits to Growth in Italy, 1971-1974
Luigi Piccioni1
Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica,
Università della Calabria, Ponte Bucci 0C, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
www.ecostat.unical.it/Piccioni
email: l.piccioni [at] unical.it
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Contents
1. The planetary success of an unusual work
2. On the origins of The Limits
3. Positive opinions and relaunching efforts
4. Economic discipline, between disorientation and rejection
5. The Catholic Church, from the initial interest to the clash on [...]
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