"Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole. Both politicians and economists are missing …
"In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and o…
"A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the ec…
The question of limits -- The last stage -- The Malthusian moment -- Final stages -- The return of limits -- The question of goods (an indefinite epilogue)
The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the …
"The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the…
The first formal world models -- Comparison between World3 scenarios and historical data -- Welcome to the real world! -- The evolution of economic thinking and system modelling techniques -- The ERRE model -- ERRE database, statistical validation and stress test scenarios. "Th…
Wirtschaftswachstum ist das alte und neue Zauberwort, mit dem sich angeblich jede Krise lÖsen lässt. Doch Wachstum ist kein Selbstzweck, und Wirtschaft soll dem Menschen dienen. Wachstum wozu, muss deshalb die Frage lauten, und: Wie viel ist genug? Wir sind viermal reicher als v…
"Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption - and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems - to sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the idea of degrowth as a…
The sociology of growth -- Degrowth. The rise of a radical alternative -- Rethinking degrowth through dépense -- Beyond the servile: the society of degrowth. "This book explores the concept of degrowth, beginning from a basic assumption, that not of resource depletion, as commo…
