Ebook: The Growth Illusion: How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet

Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Graphs and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 : Quality or Quantity?; 2 : Why Capitalism Needs Growth; 3 : Ill Fares the Land; 4 : The Benefits of War and Depression; 5 : Mrs. Thatcher and the Struggle Against Inflation; 6 : Ned Ludd Was Right; 7 : Growth and the National Health; 8 : How Growth Damaged Family and Community Life; 9 : What Has All the Growth Done?; 10 : Growth Must Have a Stop; 11 : Growth in the Greenhouse; 12 : The Dutch Dilemma; 13 : The Mahatma's Message; 14 : De Valera's Dream; 15 : The Myth of Sustainable Growth.;Short-listed for 1992 GPA Award. Is economic growth improving our lives? In 1992, when the first edition of The Growth Illusion appeared, most people had little doubt that the answer was 'Yes'. Today, however, the climate of opinion has changed and there is widespread acceptance that, while growth might be necessary to generate jobs, the development path we are following isn't making life better for ourselves or our children. This new, revised edition of The Growth Illusion explains what has gone wrong. Douthwaite argues that since the 1950s, governments around the world have made economic grow.