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	Growth Fetish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He states that the pursuit of growth has become a fetish, in that it is seen as a universal magic cure for all of society's ills.
		Hamilton also proposes that the pursuit of growth has been at a tremendous cost in terms of the environment, erosion of democracy, and the values of society as a whole, as well as not delivering the hoped for increases in personal happiness.
		Hamilton relates the fetish for growth to a "development mentality", and to a neoliberal "instrumental value theory [which] maintains that, while humans are valuable in and of themselves, the non-human world is valuable only insofar as it contributes to the wellbeing of humans" (page 191).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Growth_Fetish (474 words)

	Fetishism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fetish (from French fétiche; from Portuguese feitiço; from Latin facticius, "to make") is a natural object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular an object created by people that has power over people.
		In de Brosses' theory of the evolution of religion, he proposed that fetishism is the earliest (most primitive) stage, followed by the stages of polytheism and monotheism, representing a progressive abstraction in thought.
		Theoretically, fetishism is present in all religions, but its use in the study of religion is derived from studies of traditional West African religious beliefs, as well as Voodoo, which is derived from those beliefs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fetish (461 words)

	Growth Fetish -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Published in 2002, it became a best-seller in (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia, a very unusual feat for what is normally considered a very dry subject.
		The (A quantity much larger than is needed) surplus wealth could then be diverted into the essential infrastructure and to other nations that (additional info and facts about have not reached this level of wealth) have not reached this level of wealth.
		The Institute is also researching the growing phenomenon of (additional info and facts about downshifting) downshifting, which Hamilton feels may be a response to the growth fetish, laying the foundation for a post-growth society.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/growth_fetish.htm (456 words)

	Clive Hamilton argues that a political obsession with economic growth is unhealthy for society and democracy - On Line ...
		High growth is a cause of national pride while low growth attracts accusations of incompetence in rich countries and pity in the case of poor countries.
		In the thrall of growth fetishism, all of the major political parties in the West have made themselves captives of the national accounts.
		But in the face of all of the fantastical promises of economic growth, at the beginning of the 21st century we are confronted by an awful fact, a fact that stands as an immovable obstacle to further progress.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=274 (1891 words)

	[Corporations] FW:Beyond the Growth Fetish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Growth Fetish, Hamilton admits that, in the past times of scarcity, growth was beneficial - but he argues that in today's era of superabundance development no longer leads to subjective wellbeing.
		His view is that today's constant striving for growth simply reinforces misery: 'Economic growth does not create happiness: unhappiness sustains economic growth.' Hamilton's thesis is essentially based on the fact that over the past 30 years people have become less happy, while at the same time the economy has grown.
		Growth Fetish is interesting because it is an eloquent statement of the contemporary orthodoxy on growth.
	www.corporations.org /pipermail/corporations_corporations.org/2004-March/000249.html (1313 words)

	growth hormone - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about growth hormone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After the age of about 60 only tiny amounts of GH are produced, and this ‘deficiency’ is responsible for some of the symptoms of aging.
		Growth hormone release is controlled by growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) and the peptide somatostatin, both produced in the hypothalamus.
		The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists estimated in September 1998 that only two-fifths of growth hormone sold in the USA is used legitimately, to treat children with a deficiency.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /growth+hormone (230 words)

	fetish on Encyclopedia.com
		The fetish may be a natural thing, such as a stone, a feather, a shell, or the claw of an animal, or it may be artificial, such as carvings in wood.
		The power of the fetish is thought to derive its efficacy from one of two sources.
		Here the power within the fetish is thought to be so strong that it is extremely dangerous and may be handled only by special individuals, if at all.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f1/fetish.asp (714 words)

	Muscle Growth -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Female muscle growth (FMG) is a fantasy sexual fetish genre involving, as the name implies, muscular growth of a woman or women.
		A common misconception is that all male FMG devotees are sexual submissives, this is not always the case; the fantasy is most often tied to a (usually dramatic) equalization or reversal of the power equation between a man and a woman.
		Zero growth is a concept that all economic activities should aim at the equilibrium state rather than continuing growth which ultimately leads to overshoot and the following collapse of the system.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/101/muscle-growth.html (1122 words)

	Executive highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They argue that the benefits of economic growth, at least in countries above modest average-income levels, are a mirage because survey evidence shows that growth is not accompanied by corresponding increases in reported life satisfaction.
		If economic growth is a fetish we would expect people in high-income countries to give economic growth just as high a priority as people in low-income countries.
		Third, economic growth is primarily the result of the decisions of individuals, including as members of families and firms, in making choices about work, leisure, saving, consumption, investment, research, innovation, etc. No-one makes such decisions for the purpose of raising or lowering the rate of economic growth.
	www.cis.org.au /exechigh/Eh2004/EH24104.htm (778 words)

	Addressing the growth fetish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton is an important book if for no other reason than it will effect your livelihood.
		Growth Fetish is a rave against our materialistic society and its handmaidens, advertising and marketing.
		Growth Fetish was published by Allen and Unwin (2003) and retails for $24.95.
	www.mrsa.com.au /print.cfm?i=1207&e=91 (1092 words)

	population.org.au :: SPA :: News 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arguments for greater population growth were being fuelled by 'extraordinary scaremongering' about Australia's ageing population, director of the Australia Institute Clive Hamilton said yesterday.
		Astha was born to Anjana and Ashok Arora at 5:05 a.m.
		Population growth, of course, is the factor that drives or multiplies or accelerates global warming.
	www.population.org.au /pressrm/news/news2000.htm (7150 words)

	Natasha Cica reckons Clive Hamilton's new book 'Growth Fetish' is a must-read - On Line Opinion - 6/5/2003
		Hamilton argues that Australia, and the wider world, is the grip of an unsustainable and unhealthy obsession with economic growth and material consumption, driven by the ascendant orthodoxy of neo-liberal ideology that began to gain a serious hold in the West in the 1980s and 1990s.
		Growth not only fails to make people contented; it destroys many of the things that do.
		Growth fosters empty consumerism, degrades the natural environment, weakens social cohesion and corrodes character.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=322 (1104 words)

	Fetishism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A fetish (from French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin facticius) is a natural object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular a thing created by people that has power over people.
		Theoretically, fetishism is present in all religions, but its use in the study of religion is derived from studies of traditional Western African religious beliefs, as well as Voodoo, which is derived from those beliefs.
		Later Sigmund Freud appropriated the concept to describe a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is an inanimate object or a specific part of a person.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Fetishism.htm (479 words)

	Noble on Hamilton Growth Fetish
		Growth fetish can be seen as yet more evidence that the politics of today is in need of a change.
		Growth fetish is essentially a critique of neo-liberalism, and a proposal of a new ideology not constricted by any affiliation with either the left or right of politics, which if embraced, will lead to a better future for developed countries.
		He then concludes, "if growth does not improve wellbeing, many of the economic, social and political structures of advanced capitalism cannot be justified" (Hamilton 2003: 22).
	www.anu.edu.au /polsci/arpe/Vol3/Noble.htm (1200 words)

	Atanu Dey on India's Development - Deeshaa: Comment on Our Commitment to Immaturity, Mendacity and Profound Gullibility
		Coincidentally, I have been reading this book - Growth Fetish, a sort of condemnation of the process of growth that is the hallmark of the culture Galbraith talks about.
		Maybe it is the inevitable that the growth process takes this shape, but it would be a better world if it didn't.
		To quote Clive Hamilton, the author of the Growth Fetish, "Writing in 1865, John Stuart Mill devoted sustained attention to a concept that would be unthinkable to today’s economists and policy makers - the idea of the stationary state.
	www.deeshaa.org /mt264bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=6392 (453 words)

	Matthew Yglesias: Agreement and Disagreement
		Aggregate economic growth is growth in the measure of a convenient proxy for aggregate utility.
		Slavish adherence to maximizing "economic growth" rather than "utility growth" for which economic growth is a proxy with recognized limitations shows a very perverse set of priorities, and is a perfect example of why "the love of money is the root of all (kinds of) evil".
		Either growth is bad, in which case the Democratic party's allegedly superior success at promoting it is a thing to be deplored, or growth is good, in which case you've essentially conceded Matthew's point.
	yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2004/08/agreement_and_d.html (4013 words)

	population.org.au :: SPA :: Population Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
		Arguments for a larger Australian population are uniformly based on a belief that it will increase the growth of the economy.
		Labor's approach in NSW is far removed from the growth at any cost view of some other states.
	www.population.org.au /misc/popquotes.htm (1170 words)

	Pluto Press
		But after many years of sustained economic growth and increased personal incomes we must confront an awful fact: we aren't any happier.
		In this provocative new book, Clive Hamilton argues that, far from being the answer to our problems, growth fetishism and the marketing society lie at the heart of our social ills.
		Growth Fetish is the first serious attempt at a politics of change for rich countries dominated by sicknesses of affluence, where the real yearning is not for more money but for authentic identity, and where the future lies in creating a society that promotes the things that really do improve our well-being.
	www.studentcents.co.uk /pluto.htm (275 words)

	Economic growth, greens and living standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Austrian school makes clear that growth is an increase in the amount of capital invested per head of the population.
		That Hamilton and Saddler are utterly clueless on the nature of growth was made painfully obvious by their assertion on page five of their paper that there has been "a failure to maintain investment in the national capital stock".
		Bauer succinctly described growth when he said it was "an increase in the range of effective alternatives open to people".
	www.brookesnews.com /031504hamilton.html (2271 words)

	FindArticles search for "Growth"
		The fewer the better: we dare not discuss population growth lest we be called racist.
		In the first Britain, the work culture dominates; the talk is of economic growth and dynamism and competing...
		Study objectives: The intrapleural injection of transforming growth factor (TGF)-[[beta].sub.2] produces pleurodesis in rabbits associated with large...
	www.findarticles.com /p/search?tb=art&qt=Growth (801 words)

	Policy
		His point is that additional growth in already wealthy countries will not add to their happiness.
		Societies which experienced strong post-war growth had the equivalent of a lottery win, but high income is now factored in as 'normal'.
		The problem with Growth Fetish is that it turns some people's misplaced priorities into a critique of an economic system that, historically, has created space for the intrinsic-value pursuits that Hamilton claims it is destroying.
	www.cis.org.au /policy/spr03/polspr03-7.htm (4106 words)

	Carbusters Magazine - Magazine Issue 23
		This critique of growth and progress, best known from E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, was more recently re-popularised in Clive Hamilton's 2004 book Growth Fetish.
		Contrasting with the growth economy, the steady-state model of economics - developed by Herman Daly and others - seeks to balance production with consumption at a constant level that the environment can sustain.
		Therefore, counter-growth proponents stress that lower GDP should represent a growth in non-commodified social relations, time for oneself and for others, equity, health, nature, security, art and culture.
	www.carbusters.org /magazine/index.php?issue=23&go=feature5 (1237 words)

	- SHOP.COM
		Economic growth means better lives for us all.But after many years of sustained economic growth and increased personal incomes we must confront an awful fact: we aren't any happier.
		This is the great contradiction of modern politics.In this provocative new book, Clive Hamilton argues that, far from being the answer to our problems, growth fetishism and the marketing society lie at the heart of our social ills.
		Growth Fetish is the first serious attempt at a politics of change for rich countries dominated by sicknesses of affluence, where the real yearning is not for more money but for authentic identity, and where the future lies in a new relationship with the natural environment.
	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p26260344 (306 words)

	Growth Fetish in Moreland: Mayor's Column 23 February 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Growth Fetish in Moreland: Mayor's Column 23 February 2004
		Governments should provide conditions for economic growth, thereby increasing wealth in the population.
		Economist Clive Hamilton has argued, in his recent book Growth Fetish, that paying too much attention to economic growth is making us miserable, destroying the environment and even threatening democracy and social cohesion.
	www.moreland.vic.gov.au /archives/mayorcol230204.htm (206 words)

	Topic 9 - Reading 2 Daly & Farley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the US and the West generally, the bulk of society did not reject appeals to justice and morality, but we did come to believe that our moral resources were very scarce relative to our natural resources and technological powers.
		Our strategy was to grow first, in the hope that a bigger pie would be easier to divide than a smaller one.(But in practice the growth fetish dominated both systems, and both were unmindful of the costs of growth.) Infinite growth in a finite system is an impossible goal and will eventually lead to failure.
		The deeper lesson that efficiency only buys time and that growth forever must eventually fail in the West too, is a lesson we have not yet learned.
	www.ens.gu.edu.au /aes1161/Topic9R2.htm (716 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Beyond the <i>Growth Fetish</i>
		Hamilton's thesis is essentially based on the fact that over the past 30 years people have become less happy, while at the same time the economy has grown.
		Growth Fetish the prime minister's head of policy, Geoff Mulgan, made the point that 'growth scepticism' has been going on for 30 years (in fact, you could argue that it has been 40).
		Growth Fetish, by Clive Hamilton, is published by Pluto Press.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/0000000CA483.htm (1327 words)

	Female muscle growth - TheBestLinks.com - Fmg, Marvel Comics, Sexual fetish, The Hulk, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Female muscle growth (FMG) is a fantasy sexual fetish genre.
		giantess fetish, inflation fetish, breast expansion fetish, it is typified by Marvel Comics' Jennifer Walters character transforming into the She-Hulk.
		Devotees are often but not always sexual submissives, but the fantasy is usually tied to a reversal of the power equation between a man and a woman.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Fmg.html (135 words)

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