The Growth Illusion
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The Growth Illusion
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Author : Richard Douthwaite
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Growth Illusion written by Richard Douthwaite and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
The Growth Illusion exposes the real nature of undirected economic growth, and refutes Adam Smith's belief in the 'invisible hand' ensuring that self-interest would serve the common good.
Growth Illusion
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Author : Richard Douthwaite
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Growth Illusion written by Richard Douthwaite and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Economic development categories.
Revised and reworked, this edition argues that since the 1950s, governments around the world have made economic growth their primary focus in the belief that by baking the biggest national cake, they are creating the resources needed to fulfill their political goals. Richard Douthwaite presents research from the USA, Britain, Germany and Australia that shows that this growth first, goals later strategy is not working, and that since the mid-1980s the growth process has actually destroyed more resources than it has created on a sustainable basis. As these economies run backwards, their citizens become worse off.
The Progress Illusion
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Author : Jon D. Erickson
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2022-12
The Progress Illusion written by Jon D. Erickson and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12 with Business & Economics categories.
We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. How did we all get duped into believing the fairytale of economics? In The Progress Illusion, Jon Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his experience as a young economist inoculated in the go-go 1980's era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how flawed economic thinking shaped our politics and determined the course of American public policy. While the history of economics is dismal indeed, Erickson is part of a vigorous reform effort grounded in the realities of life on a finite planet. Crafting a new economic story, he shows, is the first step toward turning away from endless growth and towards enduring prosperity.
The Growth Delusion
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Author : David Pilling
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-25
The Growth Delusion written by David Pilling and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with Business & Economics categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism According to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? The Growth Delusion explores how we prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. So much of what is important to our well-being, from safe streets to sound minds, lies outside the purview of statistics. In a book that is both thought-provoking and entertaining, David Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies, and proposes different criteria for measuring our success.
The Illusion Of Progress
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Author : Alexander Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Illusion Of Progress written by Alexander Gillespie and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manipulated in international policy and law. Analyzing the main areas of concern - economic growth, market structure, trade, aid, debt, security and sovereignty - he shows that the entire development structure and the underpinnings of the debate are leading down quite a different path to that intended by sustainability.
The Innovation Illusion
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Author : Fredrik Erixon
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
The Innovation Illusion written by Fredrik Erixon and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Capitalism categories.
Companies, entrepreneurs, and complexity -- Capitalism and economic dynamism -- What is wrong - the map or the reality? -- Technology and income - are they decoupling? -- Jobs and technology -- Innovation famine rather than innovation feast -- 9 THE FUTURE AND HOW TO PREVENT IT -- From corporate globalism to global corporatism -- The continued rise of regulatory uncertainty -- The "silver tsunami" for cash -- Future imperfect -- Preventing the future -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
The Illusion Of Choice
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Author : Andrew Bard Schmookler
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Illusion Of Choice written by Andrew Bard Schmookler and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
It is sensitive to those values pertaining to what can be bought and sold but is blind to others - such as the integrity of the natural world and the quality of human relationships - that cannot be turned into commodities. It is impervious to the costs of tearing apart the larger wholes - families, communities, the biosphere - that are vital to the quality of our lives. While these shortcomings are known to mainstream economics, their vital importance has not been recognized because economics takes too static a perspective. Systematic errors wreak damage over time. The Illusion of Choice, by putting our economic lives in a social evolutionary perspective, illuminates the defects of the market ideology that defends the uncontrolled play of market forces. On the basis of that analysis, this work also provides the outlines of a program by which we can make the market system a better instrument of the full range of human values
The Innovation Illusion
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Author : Fredrik Erixon
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-11
The Innovation Illusion written by Fredrik Erixon and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial—a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices. Capitalism, they argue, has lost its mojo. Assessing the experiences of global companies, including Nokia, Uber, IBM, and Apple, the authors explore three key themes: declining economic dynamism in Western economies; growing corporate reluctance to contest markets and innovate; and excessive regulation limiting the diffusion of innovation. At a time of low growth, high unemployment, and increasing income inequality, innovation-led growth is more necessary than ever. This book unequivocally details the obstacles hindering our future prosperity.
Capitalism
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Author : Fred L. Block
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2018-05-04
Capitalism written by Fred L. Block and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential because it has been embraced by political and economic elites who are convinced that they are powerless to change this system. The result is cycles of raised hopes followed by disappointment as elected officials discover they have no legitimate policy tools that can deliver what the public wants. In Capitalism, leading economic sociologist Fred L. Block argues that restoring the vitality of the United States and the world economy can be accomplished only with major reforms on the scale of the New Deal and the post–World War II building of new global institutions.
The Money Illusion
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Author : Scott Sumner
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-05-06
The Money Illusion written by Scott Sumner and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-06 with Business & Economics categories.
The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar. Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It’s happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics community in the 1960s to reevaluate its view of what caused the Great Depression, the same may be happening now to our understanding of the first economic crisis of the 21st century. Foregoing the usual relitigating of problems such as housing markets and banking crises, renowned monetary economist Scott Sumner argues that the Great Recession came down to one thing: nominal GDP, the sum of all nominal spending in the economy, which the Federal Reserve erred in allowing to plummet. The Money Illusion is an end-to-end case for this school of thought, known as market monetarism, written by its leading voice in economics. Based almost entirely on standard macroeconomic concepts, this highly accessible text lays the groundwork for a simple yet fundamentally radical understanding of how monetary policy can work best: providing a stable environment for a market economy to flourish.