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摘要
摘要
A persuasive economic argument that proves we can all live better lives in this finite world.
The biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today are widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation. All these problems are simple to solve -- in theory. In practice, however, they are much more complex to solve, because most of the commonly proposed "solutions" are simply not acceptable to people and governments who are focused on the short term.
In Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers offer a new approach with thirteen recommendations that should be possible to implement around the world. This book addresses the forty-year-old growth/no-growth debate by explaining how it is possible to reduce unemployment, poverty, inequality, and the pace of climate change and still have economic growth--if we want.
Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute
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In this well-argued book, Maxton (The End of Progress) secretary general of the international think tank Club of Rome, and Randers (Limits to Growth), a professor of climate strategy at the Norwegian Business School, tackle the one misconception they say most stands in the way of global action on climate change: the belief that economic growth is essential. The authors contend that the current economic order, which depends on ever-increasing growth, has exacerbated the disparities between the rich and poor and displaced workers in vulnerable industries. Aging populations, resource depletion, and climate change will further reduce standards of living and quality of life. Maxton and Randers argue that it is possible to "create jobs, boost average living standards, reduce inequalities-even without any economic growth at all" and still manage climate change. They outline 13 propositions, explaining complex issues in a style that is clear, logical, and succinct. They acknowledge that this unconventional and controversial approach will require significant government intervention, a shift in the way most people see the world, and the poor wresting control of democratic governance from the rich to change the current economic order. These seemingly insurmountable challenges limit the book's usefulness as an action plan. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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This book analyzes the relationships among climate change, income inequality, unemployment, and economic growth at the level of the global economy. The central challenge, according to the authors, is "ecological overshoot," that is, an economic system in which "people use more resources than are being regenerated by nature, or emit more pollution than nature can absorb." Other issues must be dealt with in ways that support the goal of mitigating and, if possible, reversing climate change. To do this, humanity must shift from "extreme free-market thinking" to "modified market thinking." The book is an extended brief in support of this proposition and therefore only presents evidence and research in support of this assertion. Thus, the best way to read this book is to pair it with a text such as The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming Planet (CH, Apr'14, 51-4560) or Climate Shock: Economic Consequences of a Warmer Planet (CH, Jun'15, 52-5448), and then decide how well the claims made in Reinventing Prosperity hold up. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Louis D. Johnston, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
目录
List of Boxes | p. xi |
List of Graphs | p. xii |
List of Tables | p. xii |
Foreword | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xix |
Chapter 1 Two Urgent Problems in the Rich World | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 The Traditional Solution: Economic Growth | p. 7 |
Chapter 3 The Old Approach No Longer Works | p. 31 |
Chapter 4 Advancing Robotization | p. 45 |
Chapter 5 Other Threats to the Current Economic System | p. 59 |
Chapter 6 Dead End: The Failure of Extreme Free-Market Thinking | p. 71 |
Chapter 7 The Storms Ahead | p. 83 |
Chapter 8 A New Approach | p. 97 |
Chapter 9 Thirteen Politically Feasible Proposals to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change | p. 105 |
Chapter 10 Let the Majority Decide | p. 175 |
Chapter 11 Let the Poor World Grow | p. 183 |
Chapter 12 Saving the World | p. 193 |
Chapter 13 The Epic Battle to Come | p. 205 |
Acknowledgments | p. 213 |
Notes | p. 215 |
Select Bibliography and Further Reading | p. 226 |
About the Authors | p. 234 |
About the Cartoonist | p. 234 |
Index | p. 235 |