Prosperity Without growth

Economics for a Finite Planet

Hardcover, 264 pages

English language

Published July 3, 2009 by Earthscan.

ISBN:
978-1-84407-894-3
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Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson - a top sustainability adviser to the UK government - makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations.

No one denies that development is essential for poorer nations. But in the advanced economies there is mounting evidence that ever-increasing consumption adds little to human happiness and may even impede it. More urgently, it is now clear that the ecosystems that sustain our economies are collapsing under the impacts of rising consumption. Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of economic activity - and there is no evidence to suggest that we can - we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth.

Economic heresy? Or an opportunity to improve the sources of …

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This book suffers from me reading it after I read Doughnut Economics. A lot of it was not new information to me. I’m learning that I don’t necessarily need to go back and read older books on a topic that I am just trying to get a handle on, not master.

I wonder if the doughnut model is the kind of model Jackson was looking for? I still don’t know enough to be able to say it is.

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Subjects

  • Sustainable development
  • Wealth
  • Globalization -- Economic aspects

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