The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
- 11h 57m 9s
- Richard Heinberg
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2011
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1. The Great Balloon Race
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Chapter 2. The Sound of Air Escaping
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Chapter 3. Earth's Limits: Why Growth Won't Return
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Chapter 4. Won't Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?
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Chapter 5. Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite World
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Chapter 6. Managing Contraction, Redefining Progress
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Chapter 7. Life After Growth
