Growth: A Reckoning

Author: Daniel Susskind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the world. Yet this prosperity has come at an enormous price- deepening inequalities, destabilizing technologies, environmental destruction and climate change....Read more