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The Infinite Desire for Growth
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- Daniel Cohen
- HighBridge Audio
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- 9781684413720
- 5.5 X 6.4 X 0.7 inches
- 0.3 pounds
- Business & Economics > Development - Economic Development
- English
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The Infinite Desire for Growth spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensions that have arisen as a result. Amid finite resources, increasing populations, environmental degradation, and political unrest, the quest for new social and individual goals has never been so critical. Leading economist Daniel Cohen provides a whirlwind tour of the history of economic growth, from the early days of civilization to modern times, underscoring what is so unsettling today. The new digital economy is establishing a zero-cost production model, inexpensive software is taking over basic tasks, and years of exploiting the natural world have begun to backfire with deadly consequences. Working hard no longer guarantees social inclusion or income. Drawing on economics, anthropology, and psychology, and thinkers ranging from Rousseau to Keynes and Easterlin, Cohen examines how a future less dependent on material gain might be considered and, how, in a culture of competition, individual desires might be better attuned to the greater needs of society. At a time when wanting what we haven't got has become an obsession, The Infinite Desire for Growth explores the ways we might reinvent, for the twenty-first century, the old ideal of social progress.
The Infinite Desire for Growth
Author Bio
Daniel Cohen is director of the Economics Department at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a founding member of the Paris School of Economics.
A former adviser to the World Bank, Cohen was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2001. His many books include Globalization and Its Enemies and The Prosperity of Vice.
Education
Ecole Normale Supérieure (1973-1976)
Agrégation de Mathématiques (1976)
Doctorat de 3° Cycle Sciences Economiques (1979)
Visiting scholar, Harvard (1981-82 et 1983-84)
Doctorat d'Etat ès Sciences Economiques (1986)
Agrégation des Facultés de Droit et de Sciences Economiques (1988)
Source: Paris School of Economics
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