What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate Tim Jackson s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth Its findings provoked controversy inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions This substantially revised and re written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them Jackson demonstrates that building a post growth economy is a precise definable and meaningful task Starting from clear first principles he sets out the dimensions of that task the nature of enterprise the quality of our working lives the structure of investment and the role of the money supply He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment facilitate social investment reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability Seven years after it was first published Prosperity without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe but an essential vision of social progress in a post cr
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138935419
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 310
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 05/12/2016
Año de edición: 2016
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Escrito por Tim Jackson
Tim Jackson (Regne Unit, 1957) és director del Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CSUP) i professor de Desenvolupament Sostenible de la Universitat de Surrey. Com a economista ecològic, ha estat pioner en la investigació de les conseqüències morals, econòmiques i socials de la prosperitat en un planeta finit. Prosperity without Growth (2009, 2017), el seu llibre de referència, va ser destacat pel Financial Times com a llibre de l’any i per UnHerd com a llibre de la dècada, i ha estat traduït a disset llengües. El 2016 va rebre el premi Hillary Laureate per la seva destacada contribució al desenvolupament sostenible i també ha estat premiat com a dramaturg i guionista radiofònic de programes per a la BBC.