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The Circulation of Economic Growth and Its Unintended Results

This paper tries to explain the unintended results of economic growth. Even if economic growth is usually interpreted as the increase of material wealth, this study makes an attempt to interpret it as the results of social pressure to reach a higher standard of living which rises along with economic growth. This means that people degenerate into a social failure if they have not reached a certain level of economic growth. Of course the social pressure they constantly feel is to accomplish economic growth, not to degenerate into a social failure. The social pressure for economic growth is circulating. While the unintended results are in general produced from the circulation of social pressure, it is especially from the circulation of social pressure for economic growth that they are produced; for example, unemployment, poverty, individualization, expansion of instrumental reason, environmental crisis, etc. This paper points out that nobody takes the responsibility for these unintended results, because everybody is in the situation not free from social pressure.