The infinite desire for growth /
Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic 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 popu...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2018]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc777f0 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE ORIGIN OF GROWTH; Chapter 1. The Human Species; Chapter 2. Exodus; Chapter 3. November 13, 2026; Chapter 4. The Invention of Money; Chapter 5. The Theft of History; Chapter 6. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe; PART II. THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE!; Chapter 7. The Singularity Is Near; Chapter 8. Whither Human Labor?; Chapter 9. Vanishing Growth?; Chapter 10. Marx in Hollywood; Chapter 11. Capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 12. De collapsus novum.
- PART III. RETHINKING PROGRESSChapter 13. The (New) Great Transformation; Chapter 14. Economics and Culture; Chapter 15. The Elusive Quest of Happiness; Chapter 16. The Double Bind of Work and Autonomy; Chapter 17. Social Endogamy; Conclusion; Index.