The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many, and Endangered the Planet

الغلاف الأمامي
Green Books, 1992 - 367 من الصفحات
The idea that economic growth is beneficial is deeply rooted in Western culture and forms the basis of the economic strategies of all major British political parties. The author shows in this book, the reality is that in recent years the negative effects of growth have far outweighed the positive.

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Introduction
4
Quality or Quantity?
15
Ill Fares the Land
33
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نبذة عن المؤلف (1992)

Richard Douthwaite is an economist and writer with a special interest in climate and energy issues and in local economic development. His best-known book, The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet explores the effects that the pursuit of growth has had on the environment and society.He is a co-founder of Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, the Dublin-based international network of people who believe that the world's sustainability problems are due to the use of dysfunctional systems and are trying to develop better ones. His current projects include the design and introduction of novel financing arrangements for community energy projects and the management of the Carbon Cycles and Sinks Network which explores ways in which land-based greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced.

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