Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415490696
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9781135102920
Content:
In Progress or Collapse, Roberto De Vogli guides us through the multiple converging global crises of economic progress. He explores the connections between the environmental crisis and the psychological, social, cultural, political and economic emergencies affecting modern societies. It is not a coincidence, the author argues, that global ecological destruction is occurring in tandem with other crises: rising mental disorders, mindless consumerism, rampant conformism, status competition, civic disengagement, startling social inequalities, global financial instability, and widespread political impasse
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Intro -- PROGRESS OR COLLAPSE The crises of market greed -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Prologue: progress toward collapse -- 1 A turning point or a point of no return? -- Cooking up the planet -- Points beyond redemption -- Peak all: is the party over? -- Endangered species -- The great collision -- 2 The growth delusions -- Economic growth, human stagnation -- The price of progress -- Addicted to growth: a tale of two states -- The most important conversation of our time -- 3 United we spend -- Futility unlimited -- Manufactured wants -- The rat race: some win, all lose -- The transplantation of dreams -- The age of futilitarianism -- Personal downshifting, political uplifting -- 4 Chains of the free world -- Development as unfreedom -- Robo sapiens in a material world -- The unbearable meaninglessness of having -- Liberation theosophies -- The art of living -- 5 Market mediocracies -- Uncivil societies -- The revolution of the rich -- Spinning democracies -- Free radicals -- 6 The market greed doctrine -- Turning Adam Smith upside down -- Rolling Charles Darwin over in his grave -- The global economic straitjacket -- Right policies, sinister effects -- The magic of protectionism -- The invisible hand and the iron fist -- The self-destructive gene -- 7 Divided we fail -- All things being unequal -- The flat world myth -- Inequality overkill -- Planets apart -- Mostly animals, but still humans -- 8 Out of control -- The promised crash -- More than 30 years of economic follies -- Free market monopolies -- The rules of the gain -- The crisis within -- 9 State of political inertia -- The shadow world government -- The best democracies money can afford -- Politics for sale -- Beyond political inertia -- The best of all impossible worlds -- 10 Progress or collapse -- All right or no one left? -- Planetary emergencies
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Saving progress from itself -- Modest proposals -- The critical "mess" -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version De Vogli, Roberto Progress or Collapse Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415490696
Language:
English
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