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The book is divided into three parts. Part One, on growthmania, the no-choice myth, and the choices open to us, is really quite excellent as far as it goes. This is the brilliant student of the agnostic contemporary welfare economics at his very best. He cuts through the myths of "growth," "political and international necessities," and "progress" to remind the policy-maker that after all there is freedom of choice in this world. In this respect, there is even much in common between the student of welfare-economic theory and many of the practitioners of the New Politics in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]