The Infinite Desire for Growth / / Daniel Cohen.
Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the popul...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. THE ORIGIN OF GROWTH
- Chapter 1. The Human Species
- Chapter 2. Exodus
- Chapter 3. November 13, 2026
- Chapter 4. The Invention of Money
- Chapter 5. The Theft of History
- Chapter 6. From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
- Part II. THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE!
- Chapter 7. The Singularity is Near
- Chapter 8. Whither Human Labor?
- Chapter 9. Vanishing Growth?
- Chapter 10. Marx in Hollywood
- Chapter 11. Capital at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
- Chapter 12. De collapsus novum
- Part III. RETHINKING PROGRESS
- Chapter 13. The (New) Great Transformation
- Chapter 14. Economics and Culture
- Chapter 15. The Elusive Quest of Happiness
- Chapter 16. The Double Bind of Work and Autonomy
- Chapter 17. Social Endogamy
- Conclusion
- Index