The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

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New Internationalist, Mar 17, 2014 - Business & Economics - 144 pages

This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at new levels of environmental sustainability without having turning the clock back to the Dark Ages. A title for anyone interested in economics, the psychology of consumerism and progressive change.

Wayne Ellwood is former co-editor of New Internationalist magazine. He is author of the No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (over fifty thousand sold).


 

Contents

Foreword by Cy Gonick
6
Asadandbeautifulworldinperil
9
life before capitalism
15
a system ofreckless resilience
22
State socialism
37
The anarchist impulse
52
The ecodivide
65
The utopia debate
76
Rebuilding the alternatives Southernstyle
87
The democraticemergency
109
The autonomous rupture
122
What should we stand for?
142
Index
163
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Wayne Ellwood is former co-editor of New Internationalist magazine. He is author of the best-selling No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (over 50,000).

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