History of the Future of Economic Growth : Historical Roots of Current Debates on Sustainable Degrowth
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the end of economic growth in long-term perspective -- External limits: resources, climate change, and land -- Internal limits: stagnation, prosperi...
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| Sprache: | English |
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London New York : Routledge,
2017
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Routledge studies in ecological economics
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| Schlagworte: | Wirtschaftswachstum Nachhaltige Entwicklung Steady-State-Ökonomie Wirtschaftsgeschichte Globalisierung Economic development Economic history Sustainable development Economic development ; History Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (215 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the end of economic growth in long-term perspective -- External limits: resources, climate change, and land -- Internal limits: stagnation, prosperity, and equality -- Beyond growth? Historical perspectives and ongoing debates -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1. Seventeenth-century origins of the growth paradigm -- From Mesopotamia to the Maghreb -- Clockwork rhythms -- Gardening Eden, planting Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Growth unlimited: the idea of infinite growth from fossil capitalism to green capitalism -- The limits of the organic economy -- The infinite planet of the geologist -- The dematerialization of the economic discipline -- The unequal ecology of the "Growth Paradigm" -- The economicization of the world -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. The end of gold? Monetary metals studied at the planetary and human scale during the classical gold standard era -- Global cameralistics: Suess intervenes in international gold standard debates -- Peak gold: framing the earth socially -- Suess's global mineral appraisals under scrutiny: the history and future of gold mining -- Commodity money: shifting values of materiality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Gross domestic problem: how the politics of GDP shaped society and the world -- The dawn of GDP: from the Great Depression to the Second World War -- The evolution of GDP as a global standard -- The gross domestic "problem" -- The struggle to dethrone GDP -- A post GDP world? -- References -- 5. Development and economic growth: an intellectual history -- Development and growth: a brief history -- The development, growth, and modernization of the "Third World" -- Development and growth: the reckoning. A century of development and growth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Economic growth and health: evidence, uncertainties, and connections over time and place -- The historical record of economic growth and health: the bare numbers -- How did economic growth affect population health (in the short run)? The historical debate -- How did economic growth affect population health (in the long run)? -- How did economic growth affect population health (across time and space)? -- Tentative conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. An incompatible couple: a critical history of economic growth and sustainable development -- Historiography of the growth question within sustainable development -- Key texts -- Contexts -- Conclusion: the thing about growth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. Sustainable degrowth: historical roots of the search for alternatives to growth in three regions -- Critiques of growth and the steady state economy: the debate in English-speaking countries -- Décroissance: the debate in Southern European countries -- Postgrowth: the debate in German-speaking countries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (215 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781134866694 1134866690 9781315543000 1315543001 9781138685802 1138685801 |