The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and SustainabilityThis 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). |
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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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