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Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
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“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” Edward Abbey
“We have been persuaded to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about.” Tim Jackson
This book, directed at a general audience, describes why the existing economic system fails nearly all of us and how to create alternatives based on the idea of sustainable prosperity. It is pretty good, but I will still need to read a real textbook on green economics one of these days.
I first came across Tim Jackson on TED Talks. Watch him here, this might be all you want to know: http://tinyurl.com/3xwnfkrx. He has several other YouTube videos.
If you want more information, try the book. A great many books on social issues emphasize problem description over the provision of viable alternatives. About half of Jackson’s book is dedicated to ways of improving things.
If this is what interests you, read just Chapters 8 to 11, which describe ideas for an alternative economy. Jackson mainly reviews other peoples’ work (e.g., Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, and the McArthur Foundation’s work on Circular Economies), but he describes how these ideas can be put into practice.
“We have been persuaded to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need to create impressions that won’t last on people we don’t care about.” Tim Jackson
This book, directed at a general audience, describes why the existing economic system fails nearly all of us and how to create alternatives based on the idea of sustainable prosperity. It is pretty good, but I will still need to read a real textbook on green economics one of these days.
I first came across Tim Jackson on TED Talks. Watch him here, this might be all you want to know: http://tinyurl.com/3xwnfkrx. He has several other YouTube videos.
If you want more information, try the book. A great many books on social issues emphasize problem description over the provision of viable alternatives. About half of Jackson’s book is dedicated to ways of improving things.
If this is what interests you, read just Chapters 8 to 11, which describe ideas for an alternative economy. Jackson mainly reviews other peoples’ work (e.g., Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics, and the McArthur Foundation’s work on Circular Economies), but he describes how these ideas can be put into practice.
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