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Collision course : endless growth on a finite planet / Kerryn Higgs.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: The MIT Press, 2014.Description: xxv, 384 pages : 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780262027731 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9 23
LOC classification:
  • HC59 HIG 2014
Contents:
Economic growth : origins -- Economic growth : perceptions -- The limits to growth debate : precursors and beginnings -- The limits to growth and its critics -- Growth and consumerism -- The rise of free market fundamentalism -- "Development" and globalisation : exporting growth -- Growth and "sustainable development" -- Growth and its outcomes for the poor -- Propaganda : "business finds its voice" -- Sleight of the invisible hand -- The free market assault on environmental science -- International brakes on environmental priorities -- Limits after 40 years -- Conclusion : the planet and the pie -- Appendix: Selected critics of growth, 2013.
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Books in General collection Books in General collection Mzuzu University Library and Learning Resources Centre HC 59 HIG 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 016016 Available MzULM-016016

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-367) and index.

Economic growth : origins -- Economic growth : perceptions -- The limits to growth debate : precursors and beginnings -- The limits to growth and its critics -- Growth and consumerism -- The rise of free market fundamentalism -- "Development" and globalisation : exporting growth -- Growth and "sustainable development" -- Growth and its outcomes for the poor -- Propaganda : "business finds its voice" -- Sleight of the invisible hand -- The free market assault on environmental science -- International brakes on environmental priorities -- Limits after 40 years -- Conclusion : the planet and the pie -- Appendix: Selected critics of growth, 2013.

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