Degrowth : a vocabulary for a new era /

"We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become unecono...

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Group Author: D'Alisa, Giacomo; Demaria, Federico; Kallis, Giorgos
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust"--
Carrier Form: xxvi, 220 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781138000773
1138000779
9781138000766
1138000760
Index Number: HD75
CLC: F061.3
Call Number: F061.3/D321
Contents: Anti-utilitarianism /
Bioeconomics /
Development, critiques of /
Environmental justice /
Environmentalism, currents of /
Metabolism, societal /
Political ecology /
Steady state economics /
Autonomy /
Capitalism /
Care /
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