The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet
by Douthwaite, RichardEdition: Revised
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Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
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Summary
As Richard Douthwaite argues, strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Richard Douthwaite is a writer, journalist, speaker, and professional economist. He lives in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.
Table of Contents
| Graphs and Illustrations | p. viii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Quality or Quantity? | p. 9 |
| Why Capitalism Needs Growth | p. 27 |
| Ill Fares the Land | p. 41 |
| The Benefits of War and Depression | p. 57 |
| Mrs Thatcher and the Struggle Against Inflation | p. 63 |
| Ned Ludd Was Right | p. 81 |
| Growth and the National Health | p. 101 |
| How Growth Damaged Family and Community Life | p. 123 |
| What Has All the Growth Done? | p. 153 |
| Growth Must Have a Stop | p. 173 |
| Growth in the Greenhouse | p. 201 |
| The Dutch Dilemma | p. 233 |
| The Mahatma's Message | p. 245 |
| De Valera's Dream | p. 267 |
| The Myth of Sustainable Growth | p. 301 |
| Guiding the Invisible Hand | p. 325 |
| Epilogue | p. 347 |
| Notes | p. 348 |
| Bibliography | p. 357 |
| Index | p. 369 |
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