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The Infinite Desire for Growth (Hardcover)
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The Infinite Desire for Growth (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R538
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You Save R111 (17%)
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Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic
Economic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the
religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak,
with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United
States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in
purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is
not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire for Growth
spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensions
that have arisen as a result. Amid finite resources, increasing
populations, environmental degradation, and political unrest, the
quest for new social and individual goals has never been so
critical. Leading economist Daniel Cohen provides a whirlwind tour
of the history of economic growth, from the early days of
civilization to modern times, underscoring what is so unsettling
today. The new digital economy is establishing a "zero-cost"
production model, inexpensive software is taking over basic tasks,
and years of exploiting the natural world have begun to backfire
with deadly consequences. Working hard no longer guarantees social
inclusion or income. Drawing on economics, anthropology, and
psychology, and thinkers ranging from Rousseau to Keynes and
Easterlin, Cohen examines how a future less dependent on material
gain might be considered and, how, in a culture of competition,
individual desires might be better attuned to the greater needs of
society. At a time when wanting what we haven't got has become an
obsession, The Infinite Desire for Growth explores the ways we
might reinvent, for the twenty-first century, the old ideal of
social progress.
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