Collision course : endless growth on a finite planet / Kerryn Higgs.
By: Higgs, Kerryn.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2016Description: xxv, 384 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262529693 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Economic history -- 1971-1990 | Economic history -- 1990- | Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects | Economic policy -- Moral and ethical aspects | Free enterprise | Sustainable developmentGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HC59 .H523 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000008009 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-367) and index.
Economic growth : origins -- Economic growth : perceptions -- The limits to growth debate : precursors and beginnings -- The limits to growth and its critics -- Growth and consumerism -- The rise of free market fundamentalism -- "Development" and globalisation : exporting growth -- Growth and "sustainable development" -- Growth and its outcomes for the poor -- Propaganda : "business finds its voice" -- Sleight of the invisible hand -- The free market assault on environmental science -- International brakes on environmental priorities -- Limits after 40 years -- Conclusion : the planet and the pie -- Appendix: Selected critics of growth, 2013.