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Gabriola Island : New Society Publishers, [2011]

xiv, 321 stran : ilustrace, 1 portrét ; 23 cm

ISBN 978-0-86571-695-7 (brožováno)

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Contents // Acknowledgments ... xi // Introduction: The New Normal... 1 // Why Is Growth Ending?... 2 // The End of Growth Should Come As No Surprise... 4 // Why Is Growth So Important?... 6 // But Isn’t Growth Normal?... 10 // The Simple Math of Compounded Growth... 12 // The Peak Oil Scenario... . 15 // From Scary Theory to Scarier Reality... 18 // Bursting Bubbles... 19 // What Comes After Growth?... 20 // A Guide to the Book... 22 // 1. The Great Balloon Race ... ... 27 // Economic History in Ten Minutes... 28 // Economics for the Hurried... 34 // 20th-Century Economics... 38 // Business Cycles, Interest Rates, and Central Banks.. 41 // Mad Money... 46 // I Owe You... 51 // 2. The Sound of Air Escaping ... 55 // Houses of Cards. ... 56 // Setting the Stage: 1970 to 2001... 57 // Shadow Banks and the Housing Bubble... 61 // What Goes Up... 63 // The Mother of All Manias... 70 // vii // viii The End of Growth // Limits to Debt... 72 // All Loaned Up and Nowhere to Go... 81 // Stimulus Duds, Bailout Blanks ... 83 // Actions by Other Nations and Their Central Banks... 91 // After All the Arrows have Flown... 92 // Deflation or Inflation?... 96 // The Bridge to Nowhere ... 99 // 3. Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return...105 // Oil... 106 // Other Energy Sources...113 // How Markets May Respond to Resource Scarcity: // The Goldilocks Syndrome...118 // Water...124 // Food... 129 // Metals and Other Minerals ...138 // Climate Change, Pollution, Accidents, Environmental // Decline,

and Natural Disasters. ... 145 // 4. Won’t Innovation, Substitution, // and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?...155 // Substitutes Forever ...156 // Energy Efficiency to the Rescue...164 // Business Development: The Cavalry’s on the Way...174 // Moores or Murphys Law?...177 // Specialization and Globalization: Genies at Our Command . . 181 // 5. Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth // in a Finite World ... 189 // The China Bubble . ...190 // Currency Wars...202 // Post-Growth Geopolitics ...208 // Population Stress: Old vs. Young on a Full Planet...212 // The End of “Development”?...217 // The Post-Growth Struggle Between Rich and Poor...224 // Contents ix // 6. Managing Contraction, Redefining Progress ...231 // The Default Scenario... 233 // Haircuts for All... or Free Money?... 236 // Post-Growth Money... 241 // Post-Growth Economics ...246 // Gross National Happiness ... 255 // Our Problems Are Resolvable In Principle ...259 // 7. Life After Growth ...267 // Setting Priorities...268 // Transition Towns...270 // Common Security Clubs... 273 // Putting the New Economy on the Map... 275 // What Might a Sustainable Society Look Like?...280 // Perspective ... 284 // Notes... 287 // Index 311 // About the Author... 321