First Published in 1975. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
‘Two policy proposals are particularly notable and owe nothing to the long-standing controversies between left and right.
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.
In the absence of international, national, or state initiatives to implement a no-growth imperative founded on ecological limits, this book takes the position that local communities have an obligation to take the lead in promoting a new ...
Edited by an impressive array of experts, this book identifies several areas in which we must fundamentally rethink our societal organisation.
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Written during a period of acute economic stagnation in 1980, The Zero-Sum Society discusses the human implications of economic problem solving.
6.2.3 Nuclear Wastes 'Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter', said Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission in a speech to the National Association of Science Writers on 16 ...
"Prosperity without Growth" challenges the embedded, unquestioned assumptions of the global policy of growth and shows that it is necessaryand possibleto have increased and widespread prosperity without economic growth.
Describes the benefits of widely distributed economic growth, including the creation and enhancement of democratic institutions, political stability, and the promotion of opportunity, exploring the role of economic growth in determining ...
In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global ...