Let's connect mainstream economics with reality
People in power tell us that growth is the surest path to a better life. This idea has shaped policy across the globe for the last seventy-five years, promising economic benefits that can continue without limit. Economists have clung to this premise while ignoring the collapse of natural ecosystems necessary to sustain human life.
We can feel the results in a warming climate, biodiversity losses, and skyrocketing inequality. It is obvious now that a thriving future requires an economic framework compatible with the natural world.
Tracing the long battle over how to analyze growth, Christopher F. Jones offers hope for the future. Humans have not always believed that economic growth should be infinite. We can still create new ideas about how to promote environmental sustainability, human welfare and a responsible economy, without compromising the planet and ourselves.
| ISBN: | 9780861540044 |
| Publication date: | 16th October 2025 |
| Author: | Christopher F Jones |
| Publisher: | Oneworld an imprint of Oneworld Publications |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Genres: |
International institutions Environmental economics Public international law: economic and trade Public international law: environment Climate change Environmentalist thought and ideology Popular economics Macroeconomics Economic growth International economics |
Let's connect mainstream economics with reality
People in power tell us that growth is the surest path to a better life. This idea has shaped policy across the globe for the last seventy-five years, promising economic benefits that can continue without limit. Economists have clung to this premise while ignoring the collapse of natural ecosystems necessary to sustain human life.
We can feel the results in a warming climate, biodiversity losses, and skyrocketing inequality. It is obvious now that a thriving future requires an economic framework compatible with the natural world.
Tracing the long battle over how to analyze growth, Christopher F. Jones offers hope for the future. Humans have not always believed that economic growth should be infinite. We can still create new ideas about how to promote environmental sustainability, human welfare and a responsible economy, without compromising the planet and ourselves.
The Invention of Infinite Growth features in the following genres: International institutions, Environmental economics, Public international law: economic and trade, Public international law: environment, Climate change, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Popular economics, Macroeconomics, Economic growth, International economics
The Invention of Infinite Growth is available in Hardback
The Invention of Infinite Growth was written by Christopher F Jones and published by Oneworld an imprint of Oneworld Publications
The Invention of Infinite Growth has 368 pages
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