The Social Limits To Growth
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The Limits To Growth Revisited
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Author : Ugo Bardi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-05-27
The Limits To Growth Revisited written by Ugo Bardi and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-27 with Technology & Engineering categories.
“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The Limits to Growth” are in great need of reappraisal. In The Limits to Growth Revisited, Ugo Bardi examines both the science and the polemics surrounding this work, and in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years. “The Limits to Growth” was a milestone in attempts to model the future of our society, and it is vital today for both scientists and policy makers to understand its scientific basis, current relevance, and the social and political mechanisms that led to its rejection. Bardi also addresses the all-important question of whether the methods and approaches of “The Limits to Growth” can contribute to an understanding of what happened to the global economy in the Great Recession and where we are headed from there.
The Social Limits To Growth
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Author : Nick Horsewood
language : en
Publisher: IOS Press
Release Date : 2006
The Social Limits To Growth written by Nick Horsewood and has been published by IOS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
Home ownership has both positive as well as negative aspects for individuals and society. This book is based on a research, which gives an insight into the security and insecurity aspects of home ownership across Europe. It helps you to understand the relationship between the structural position of home ownership in different European countries.
Social Limits To Growth
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Author : Fred Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1976
Social Limits To Growth written by Fred Hirsch and has been published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Business & Economics categories.
Fred Hirsch's classic exposition of the social limits to growth manages to connect many of the apparently disparate factors that blight modern life.
Managing Without Growth Second Edition
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Author : Peter A. Victor
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2018
Managing Without Growth Second Edition written by Peter A. Victor and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Economic development categories.
Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet. This book explains why long-term economic growth is infeasible, and why, especially in advanced economies, it is also undesirable. Simulations based on real data show that managing without growth is a better alternative
Social Limits To Growth
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Author : Fred Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-09-15
Social Limits To Growth written by Fred Hirsch and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Fred Hirsch's Social Limits Growth is one of the sleeper hits of economics. Its brilliant and acute insights, informed by Hirsch’s experience as a journalist at The Economist before turning to academia, have become ever more relevant as liberal capitalism confronts challenges from austerity to the global race for scarce resources. Hirsch makes the case for what he calls "positional goods", which derive their value from being scarce in ways that can’t be relieved by technological advancement, such as a Rembrandt painting, a priceless antique or even an elite, private education. Crucially, Hirsch says, their value lies in the social position their ownership allows one to occupy. He contrasts them with material goods, such as flushing toilets, opportunities to travel, and high-quality food. There is no such positional status afforded by their ownership because, despite a relatively high cost at their introduction, soon everyone has them. Once such material goods cease being luxuries, people begin to want other things, which Hirsch memorably and prophetically describes as "the needs of the mind and psyche". But these only serve to entangle us in an inescapable war between consumers, as each of us strive to be better than average, reflecting the very limits described by the title of Hirsch's book. A devastating account of the way consumerism, conspicuous consumption and the expectation to be better off than the last generation undermine the delicate social capital that has previously bound individuals and communities together, Social Limits to Growth is a book whose message is more urgent now than on its first publication nearly fifty years ago. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Daniel Halliday.
Collision Course
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Author : Kerryn Higgs
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2014-08-08
Collision Course written by Kerryn Higgs and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-08 with Business & Economics categories.
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems—poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom. Higgs tells how in 1972, The Limits to Growth—written by MIT researchers Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III—found that unimpeded economic growth was likely to collide with the realities of a finite planet within a century. Although the book's arguments received positive responses initially, before long the dominant narrative of growth as panacea took over. Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of “free enterprise,” the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of “the magic of the market,” and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks—a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming. More than forty years after The Limits to Growth, the idea that growth is essential continues to hold sway, despite the mounting evidence of its costs—climate destabilization, pollution, intensification of gross global inequalities, and depletion of the resources on which the modern economic edifice depends.
Models Of Doom
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Author : H. S. D. Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Models Of Doom written by H. S. D. Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Beyond The Limits
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Author : Donella H. Meadows
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Beyond The Limits written by Donella H. Meadows and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Beyond the Limits presents a warning and a choice: a rapid and uncontrolled decline in food production, industrial capacity, population and life expectancy, or a sustainable future. By using their system dynamics computer model as a unique tool to project the future, and by varying the basic policy assumptions, the authors are able to show a range of possible outcomes.
There Are No Limits To Growth
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Author : Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review
Release Date : 2015-09-03
There Are No Limits To Growth written by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and has been published by Executive Intelligence Review this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with Business & Economics categories.
It is not necessary to let millions of babies die or to murder your own aunt in order to save the trees! Lyndon LaRouche refutes the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth hoax and shows that human creativity expressed as continuous scientific and technological progress is the single prerequisite to both secure the future of humanity and to spread the principle of life through more and more of the Universe.
2052
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Author : Jørgen Randers
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2012
2052 written by Jørgen Randers and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
What Will Our Future Look Like? We know what we want the world to be like in forty years. We know what the world could be like in forty years if we all did what needs to be done to create a more sustainable future.