A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it w. English Pages [] Year A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures—including news-making re. In , the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area.
Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhoo. This study provides a reasonably detailed social history of Winnipeg: a description—or reconstruction—of the evolvement. The Trap 2. The Priority 4.
The Promise 5. GDP Minimalism 7. Unleashing Growth 9. The Big Tradeoffs Includes bibliographical references and index. Economic development—Moral and ethical aspects. Economic history.
S DDC The Trap 11 2. The Priority 57 4. The Promise 73 5. Modern economic growth began just two hundred years ago, when living standards in certain parts of the world started a dizzying climb. The desolation of local cultures and communities. On the one hand, it is associated with many of our greatest triumphs and achievements. It is as if we cannot go on, and yet we must. But this is also a practical book, a guide to how we should address the growth dilemma in the real world. And our apparent success created the impression that an expanding economy was the norm, with any slowdown to be regarded as an unfortunate but temporary exception.
We increasingly realize we cannot take growth for granted. This book, in part, hopes to fix that. The world we inhabit is quite unlike anything that has come before: for almost all of history, life was stagnant, growth rare and fleeting. The challenge we face is not only new but disorienting. That prioritization gives the impression that growth must have an illustrious history as an idea.
