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Collision Course : Endless Growth on a Finite Planet.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (411 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262320917
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Collision CourseDDC classification:
  • 330.9
LOC classification:
  • HC59 -- .H523 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- I Growth and Its Challengers -- 1 Economic Growth: Origins -- 2 Economic Growth: Perceptions -- 3 The Limits to Growth Debate: Precursors and Beginnings -- 4 The Limits to Growth and Its Critics -- II Chasing Growth -- 5 Growth and Consumerism -- 6 The Rise of Free Market Fundamentalism -- 7 "Development" and Globalization: Exporting Growth -- 8 Growth and "Sustainable Development" -- 9 Growth and Its Outcomes for the Poor -- III Persuading the People -- 10 Propaganda: "Business Finds Its Voice" -- 11 Sleight of the Invisible Hand -- 12 The Free Market Assault on Environmental Science -- 13 International Brakes on Environmental Priorities -- IV In Conclusion -- 14 The Limits to Growth after Forty Years -- 15 Conclusion: The Planet and the Pie -- Appendix: Selected Critics of Growth, 2013 -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- I Growth and Its Challengers -- 1 Economic Growth: Origins -- 2 Economic Growth: Perceptions -- 3 The Limits to Growth Debate: Precursors and Beginnings -- 4 The Limits to Growth and Its Critics -- II Chasing Growth -- 5 Growth and Consumerism -- 6 The Rise of Free Market Fundamentalism -- 7 "Development" and Globalization: Exporting Growth -- 8 Growth and "Sustainable Development" -- 9 Growth and Its Outcomes for the Poor -- III Persuading the People -- 10 Propaganda: "Business Finds Its Voice" -- 11 Sleight of the Invisible Hand -- 12 The Free Market Assault on Environmental Science -- 13 International Brakes on Environmental Priorities -- IV In Conclusion -- 14 The Limits to Growth after Forty Years -- 15 Conclusion: The Planet and the Pie -- Appendix: Selected Critics of Growth, 2013 -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.

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