Turning Point: An End to the Growth ParadigmEarthscan, 1998 - 258 ˹éÒ This text discusses the current basis of economic growth, concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival - eco-restructuring. This strategy involves a shifting away from production of goods to production of services, closing material cycles and eliminating reliance on non-renewable resources. |
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Discontinuities | 3 |
Implications | 9 |
List of Figures | 13 |
Technological Drivers | 16 |
4 Trend in Speeds of Cutting Tool Materials | 19 |
7 World Primary Energy Consumption | 25 |
Cause or Effect? | 26 |
1 Congressional Budget Office Projections of Annual | 32 |
Notes | 112 |
Income Distribution in the UK | 117 |
1 Summary of French Social Services 41 | 127 |
Intergenerational Equity | 128 |
BaP benzapyrene | 140 |
Pollution Depletion Health and Wealth | 143 |
EcoRestructuring for Sustainability | 150 |
The Government Role | 164 |
Why Growth Will Almost Certainly | 35 |
3 Unemployment in France | 40 |
Debt and Public Policy | 41 |
Summary and Implications | 48 |
China | 57 |
Summary and Implications | 65 |
Technology Progress and Economic Growth | 67 |
Standard Theory | 81 |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | 87 |
Is Job Training the Panacea? | 96 |
1 Unemployment in OECD Countries 19601993 | 103 |
2 Indices of Sustainable Economic Welfare | 111 |
Regulatory Reform | 177 |
The State of Macro Theory | 190 |
CFC chlorofluorocarbon | 191 |
CHA methane | 198 |
Notes | 204 |
Trade and Economic Growth | 219 |
National Debt and National Wealth | 226 |
COLA cost of living adjustment | 232 |
Conclusions | 239 |
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