Growth fetish
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Growth fetish
Pluto Press, 2004
- : hbk
- : pbk.
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For decades our political leaders and opinion makers have touted higher incomes as the way to a better future. Economic growth means better lives for us all.
But after many years of sustained economic growth and increased personal incomes we must confront an awful fact: we aren't any happier. This is the great contradiction of modern politics. Clive Hamilton argues that, far from being the answer to our problems, growth fetishism and the marketing society lie at the heart of our social ills. They have corrupted our social priorities and political structures, and have created a profound sense of alienation among young and old.
Growth Fetish is the first serious attempt at a politics of change for rich countries dominated by sicknesses of affluence, where the real yearning is not for more money but for authentic identity, and where the future lies in creating a society that promotes the things that really do improve our well-being.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Growth fetishism
The growth fetish
Economists on wellbeing
The great contradiction
Political implications
2. Growth and wellbeing
Income
Personal happiness
Values and meaning
Alternative measures
3. Identity
Having and wanting
Consumption and the modern self
Marketing
Overconsumption
4. Progress
The idea of progress
Oppression and liberation
Globalisation
5. Politics
The Third Way
The power of economic ideas
Power and equality
6. Work
Rethinking work
The new labour market
In praise of housework
Work in a post-growth world
7. Environment
The voraciousness of growth
The conquering spirit
A philosophical transition
Environmentalism and social democracy
8. The post-growth society
Political downshifting
Eudemonism: the politics of happiness
Starting the transition
The post-growth economy
Power and social structure
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