Managing without growth : slower by design, not disaster /

Peter Victor challenges the priority that rich countries continue to give to economic growth as an over-arching objective of economic policy. The challenge is based on a critical analysis of the literature on environmental and resource limits to growth, on the disconnect between higher incomes and h...

• Main Author: Victor, Peter A.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham : E. Elgar, 2008
• Series: Advances in ecological economics series
• Subjects: CRECIMIENTO ECONOMICO; DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE; ASPECTOS AMBIENTALES; EFECTOS SOBRE EL MEDIO AMBIENTE; CANADA; PROGRESO ECONOMICO; DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE; ECODESARROLLO
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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Prologue
• 1.The Idea of Economic Growth
• 2. Why Manage without Growth?
• 3. Systems, Information and Prices
• 4. Limits to Growth – Sources
• 5. Limits to Growth – Sinks and Services
• 6.Limits to Growth – Synthesis
• 7. Scale, Composition and Technology
• 8. Economic Growth and Happiness
• 9. The Disappointments of Economic Growth
• 10. Managing without Growth in Canada: Exploring the Possibilities
• 11. Policies for Managing without Growth
• References
• Index.