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Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
In these post-2008 times of perpetual recession and economic uncertainty, governments around the world remain obsessed with maintaining economic growth. Never again must we anger our free-market gods, and their fickle invisible hand, they say. But why is this? Why do our market economies require perpetual growth to be healthy? And why does our society assume greater wealth will bring us greater well-being? These are two fundamental questions Tim Jackson sets out to address in his popular-economic work Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (2009). Acknowledging the dire implications of material growth for perpetuating ongoing ecological crisis, Jackson proposes we retrofit capitalism in drastic ways, and fundamentally challenges the assumption that perpetual growth is necessary for enjoying a lasting prosperity.
Interestingly, despite the book’s potentially subversive prescription
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Capital (novel)
2012 novel by John Lanchester
Capital (ISBN 9780571234622) is a novel bygd John Lanchester, published by Faber and Faber in 2012.[1] The novel is set in London prior to and during the 2008 financial crisis, jumping between December 2007, April 2008, and August 2008.[2] The title refers both to London as the capital city of the United Kingdom, and to financial capital. All of the main characters have a connection to Pepys Road, a street in the south London suburb of Clapham.
The book deals with multiple contemporary issues in British life including the financial crisis of 2007–08, immigration, Islamic extremism, celebrity, and property prices. In 2015 a three-part TV adaptation bygd Peter Bowker, and starring Lesley Sharp and Toby Jones, was filmed.[3] The first episode was broadcast on BBC One on 24 November 2015.[4]
Characters
[edit]- Petunia Howe - an elderly widow who has lived on Pepys Road for most of her
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Why We’re in a New Gilded Age
Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn’t a household name, although that may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. It has become a commonplace to säga that we are living in a second Gilded Age—or, as Piketty likes to put it, a second Belle Époque—defined bygd the incredible rise of the “one percent.” But it has only become a commonplace thanks to Piketty’s work. In particular, he and a few colleagues (notably Anthony Atkinson at Oxford and Emmanuel Saez at Berkeley) have pioneered statistical techniques that make it possible to track the concentration of income and wealth deep into the past—back to the early twentieth century for America and Britain, and all the way to the late eighteenth century for France.
The result has been a revolution in our un