Can prosperity be deliberately created—and at what cost? Published in 1938, W. C. Sickesz’s Quo Vadis? Or, The Way to Unprecedented Prosperity offers an unconventional industrialist’s response to the economic upheavals of the interwar years.
Sickesz proposed stimulating employment and production through the systematic replacement of older buildings, machinery and goods—even before their useful lives had ended.
His controversial prescription makes this short work an intriguing encounter with the ambitions and contradictions of economic progress.
For readers today, its interest lies in the questions it provokes: does ever-faster consumption make society richer, what should we preserve rather than replace, and how can prosperity be reconciled with the responsible use of finite resources? A thought-provoking discovery for readers of economic history and neglected ideas.
The book is in good condition. Binding is intact. All the pages are clean.
