Boris Frankel

Fictions of Sustainability

The Politics of Growth and Post Capitalist Futures

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the growing political contest between conservative and reform-orientated defenders of capitalist societies on the one side, and the policies and imagined futures advanced by green and socialist critics on the other. All are subjected to detailed scrutiny. Is 'green growth' innovation able to resolve deep-seated global inequality and other socio-political and environmental problems? Can new technology sustain capitalist production and high consumption by decoupling economic growth from the limits of nature? How feasible or utopian are 'post-work' or post-capitalist societies based on full automation and a universal basic income? What are the political economic strengths and weaknesses of green post-growth or degrowth proposals? These and other crucial issues are analysed by the author in a challenging and thought-provoking book covering an extensive range of policy reports, social theories, environmental proposals and political practices across the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenmeadows
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780648363309
• ISBN-10: 0648363309
• Artikelnr.: 54185097

Autorenporträt

Boris Frankel was born in Melbourne and is a social and environmentalist theorist and political economist. He has been active in social movements and is a public media commentator. Apart from publications in Australia, the UK and US, his work has been translated into many languages in Europe, Asia and Latin America.