The Good Society without Growth

The Good Society without Growth
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Why Green Growth is Not Enough
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Artikel-Nr:
9783941365414
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
152
Autor:
Reinhard Loske
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Digital Watermark [Social-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

“A growth imperative doesn’t exist in nature, except in the case of living organisms that have yet to reach maturity. When maturity is attained, however, growth stops. So why should it be that human society and economy never reach adulthood?
Well, human population numbers continue to grow. Millions of people live in poverty and face life-long unemployment or marginal work. For their sakes, growth is highly desirable. But what is the situation in rich countries? Here too, people tend to call for ever more growth. But this is truly not the only option, as Reinhard Loske rightly demonstrates.

I am grateful that he wrote this book, consisting of an older text from 2010 that evoked strong responses among so many people and the newer essay offering reasonable and reassuring answers to his critics. Of course, other literature exists on this theme […]. Further afield, the mountain kingdom of Bhutan is experimenting with an economic model to replace Gross Domestic Product by a ‘happiness index’. Such approaches are both enlightening and invigorating.

Yet Reinhard Loske goes further. He is at home in the world of politics where you always have to explain your doings to the electorate. He recognises the intelligent and less intelligent objections to his abandonment of the growth imperative and responds to these in a comprehensible way.”

From the Foreword by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Co-President of the Club of Rome
Contents

- Foreword by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
- Introduction

Abandoning the Growth Imperative: Shaping a Politics of Moderation

- Contrary lines of thought in ecological policy
1. A true measure of prosperity
2. Rolling back a ubiquitous trend towards commercialisation
3. New models for working and living
4. A new direction for business
5. Steering a new course through green and fair taxation
6. Supporting socio-ecological innovations
7. Protection of public goods and maintenance of public infrastructures
8. Regionalisation of economic processes
9. Reform of the monetary system
- Responses to the book “Abandoning the Growth Imperative”

The Growth Question: What Lies Ahead?

- Foreword
- Why we need more cogent arguments: a preliminary comment
1. Doing without the term “doing without”?
2. Would it be better just to talk about progress?
3. Decoupling instead of degrowth?
4. Does green growth offer a way out of the crisis?
5. One last time?
6. Post-growth society as a “nightmare scenario”?
7. Growth critique: cynicism from the well-to-do?
8. No jobs without growth?
9. Will degrowth cause economic collapse?
10. Growth weakness in the North: development crisis in the South?
11. A loss of status for Europe?
- The growth debate: What Lies Ahead?
- “A good society without growth compulsion!”
- Notes
- Responses to the book “The Growth Question: What lies ahead?”

Literature
1. Additional literature
2. References

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