Michael Roscoe

Why Things Are Going to Get Worse - And Why We Should Be Glad

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Produktbeschreibung

The good times have gone forever and we must now adjust to a new reality of job creation and degrowth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Internationalist
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 135mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781780261768
• ISBN-10: 1780261764
• Artikelnr.: 40552996

Autorenporträt

Michael Roscoe: Michael Roscoe is a journalist with many years experience at the Economist and the Financial Times. Most recently he was Promotions Editor at the FT where he created charts and graphs illustrating data.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
PART ONE - Why Things Are Bad
CHAPTER 1 - THREE CHARTS
Summary of the problems
CHAPTER 2 - WHAT IS WEALTH?
Basic economics; GDP explained
CHAPTER 3 - WHAT HAPPENS TO WEALTH?
The vanishing trillions
CHAPTER 4 - SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING
An investigation into values
CHAPTER 5 - THE VALUE OF MONEY
A brief history of money and debt
CHAPTER 6 - BETTING NAKED
The growth of finance; derivatives explained
CHAPTER 7 - FROM WAREHOUSE TO WHOREHOUSE
Earlyindustry and the dawn of trade
CHAPTER 8 - MEASURING WEALTH
The accumulation of wealth and the importance of oil
PART TWO- Why It's Going To Get Worse
CHAPTER 9 - WEALTH AND WORK
The productivity problem; was Marx right?
CHAPTER 10 - THE TECHNOLOGY DILEMMA
Why real jobs are in decline
CHAPTER 11 - VIRTUAL VALUES
The internet as job killer
CHAPTER 12 - LIVING IN NEVER-NEVER LAND
Bubble trouble and the debt of nations
CHAPTER 13 - THE DECLINE OF EUROPE
The Eurozone debt problem and lessons from Japan
CHAPTER 14 - A RACE WITH NO WINNERS
The high price of cheap goods
CHAPTER 15 - THE CASE FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISE
Socialism is not a dirty word
CHAPTER 16 - TEN REASONS...
Why the rich world is getting poorer
PART THREE - Why We Should Be Glad
CHAPTER 17 - ECONOMY OR ECOLOGY?
More jobs, less fossil fuel use
CHAPTER 18 - LIFE WITHOUT OIL
So what are the alternatives to fossil fuels?
CHAPTER 19 - TIME TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM
Re-evaluation of values; jobs first
CHAPTER 20 - JOBS WITHOUT GROWTH
Politics that work, why we need global regulation
CHAPTER 21 - WHERE NEXT?
Likely trends; why the US will stay on top
CHAPTER 22 - IS THERE A BETTER WAY?
CONCLUSIONS