"This very timely and important collection draws together some of the world's leading thinkers on environment and …

economic development and modernization in the Third World. It links these trends by revealing how environmental NGOs challenged … and reformed development approaches of the U.S. government, World Bank, and United Nations from the 1960s through the 1990 … accommodated the developmental aspirations of Third World intellectuals and leaders. In sum, Of Limits and Growth offers a new …

analysis," including the property-rights basis of environmental problems, efficient pollution control, benefit …-based approach to controlling pollution, the economic critique of growth, the potential for government failure, the promotion of …