Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not DisasterEdward Elgar Publishing, 2008 M01 1 - 272 pages Managing Without Growth offers a compelling argument for the need for a new policy focus in the rich nations. Peter Victor argues that it is time for our obsession with economic growth to end. A new focus on human well-being must replace our more is bette |
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... problems. The main emphasis of the series is on the development and application of new original ideas in ecological economics. International in its approach, it includes some of the best theoretical and empirical work in the field with ...
... problems. The main emphasis of the series is on the development and application of new original ideas in ecological economics. International in its approach, it includes some of the best theoretical and empirical work in the field with ...
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... problem was 'stagflation', the simultaneous occur- rence of economic stagnation (unemployment) and inflation following the rapid rise in oil prices in the 1970s. This was the time when monetarism began to flourish, first in academic ...
... problem was 'stagflation', the simultaneous occur- rence of economic stagnation (unemployment) and inflation following the rapid rise in oil prices in the 1970s. This was the time when monetarism began to flourish, first in academic ...
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... problems such as achieving full employment more manageable , maintain- ing a ' cheerful state ' in society , harking back to Adam Smith , and keeping up with others . In regards to this last principle Arndt quotes Domar , one of the ...
... problems such as achieving full employment more manageable , maintain- ing a ' cheerful state ' in society , harking back to Adam Smith , and keeping up with others . In regards to this last principle Arndt quotes Domar , one of the ...
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... problem especially with respect to many potentially renewable resources such as easily accessed forests, ocean fisheries, the atmosphere, and the gene pool. Even with non-renewable resources prices may not give the right signals. The ...
... problem especially with respect to many potentially renewable resources such as easily accessed forests, ocean fisheries, the atmosphere, and the gene pool. Even with non-renewable resources prices may not give the right signals. The ...
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... problems, noting that 'our ignorance about these matters is still great' (Arndt 1978, p. 144), but he was not particularly concerned about them, believing that 'on most of these dire predictions, of over-heating of the earth's ...
... problems, noting that 'our ignorance about these matters is still great' (Arndt 1978, p. 144), but he was not particularly concerned about them, believing that 'on most of these dire predictions, of over-heating of the earth's ...
Contents
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2 Why manage without growth? | 23 |
3 Systems information and prices | 39 |
4 Limits to growth sources | 47 |
5 Limits to growth sinks and services | 72 |
6 Limits to growth synthesis | 89 |
7 Scale composition and technology | 99 |
8 Economic growth and happiness | 124 |
9 The disappointments of economic growth | 154 |
exploring the possibilities | 169 |
11 Policies for managing without growth | 191 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 253 |
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