Turning point : an end to the growth paradigm / Robert U. Ayres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayres, Robert U.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

Social service--Economic aspects.

Social service.

Physical Description:

xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Turning point : the end of the growth paradigm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's, 1998.

Summary:

In Turning Point, Robert Ayres Offers A Compelling and Vigorous Argumint That the Institutions Underpinning the Gioral Economy are Inherently Incapable of Delivering Social Welfare to the Majority. He Distinguishes Between the Symitoms and the Causes of the Economic Malaise, and Analyses the Flawed Bases for Many Deeply-Held Orthodoxies. He Goes on to Explain How Only A Fundamental Restructuring of Economic Activity, Emphasizing Services Rather Than Goods, Holds Out Promise for A Sustainable Future.

Entertaining, Perceptive and Wide-Ranging, and Written by One of Neo-Classical Economics's Most Celebrated and Innovative Critics, Turning Point Will be Reouired Reading for Economists, Industrialists, Environmentalists, Policy-Makers and All Who are Concerned With the Development of Economies and Societies.

Contents:

On possible and impossible futures

Drivers of change

The coming economic crisis of the West

Wild cards : Russia, China, India and Islam

Technology, progress and economic growth

More on jobs

The growth illusion

Equity, poverty and the coming social crisis

Economic growth versus the environment

Eco-restructuring for sustainability

The government role

International development issues

The economic growth paradigm

The free trade paradigm

National debt and national wealth.

Notes:

Expanded version of: Turning point : the end of the growth paradigm, published in 1996 as an INSEAD working paper, no. 96/49.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-252) and index.

ISBN:

0312214537

OCLC:

39630027