History of the Future of Economic Growth (eBook, PDF)

Historical Roots of Current Debates on Sustainable Degrowth
Redaktion: Borowy, Iris; Schmelzer, Matthias

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the 21st century. However, so far the current debates questioning the viability of perpetual growth lack a thorough historical perspective. This volume addresses the origins and evolution of the growth paradigm, explores transportation, health, resource consumption and material flows as case studies of the complex repercussions of growth, and examines sustainable development, sustainable growth, buen vivir and degrowth as examples of alternative developmental models. The book provides the necessary historical depth to the ongoing discussion on suitable principles of present and future global development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134866694
• Artikelnr.: 47889106

Autorenporträt

Iris Borowy is Distinguished Professor at Shanghai University, China. Matthias Schmelzer works at the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie in Leipzig and is a Permanent Fellow at the Research Group on Post-Growth Societies at the University of Jena, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the end of economic growth in long-term perspective
Iris Borowy and Matthias Schmelzer
1 Seventeenth-century origins of the growth paradigm
Gareth Dale
2 Growth unlimited: the idea of infinite growth from fossil capitalism to
green capitalism
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Christophe Bonneuil
3 The end of gold? Monetary metals studied at the planetary and human scale
during the classical gold standard era
Andrea Westermann
4 Gross domestic problem: how the politics of GDP shaped society and the
world
Lorenzo Fioramonti
5 Development and economic growth: an intellectual history
Stephen Macekura
6 Economic growth and health: evidence, uncertainties, and connections over
time and place
Iris Borowy
7 An incompatible couple: a critical history of economic growth and
sustainable development
Jeremy L. Caradonna
8 Sustainable degrowth: historical roots of the search for alternatives to
growth in three regions
Barbara Muraca and Matthias Schmelzer
Index