The economics of arrival : ideas for a grown-up economy /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; THE ECONOMICS OF ARRIVAL; Contents; List of figures, table and boxes; Figures; Table; Boxes; List of abbreviations; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; About this book; 2. The fruits of growth; Good growth and bad growth; 3. Are the fruits of growth beginning to rot?; Unsafe growth; An unevenly shared harvest; Growth that hurts; Over-development; 4. Stockholm Syndrome? How the economy fell in love with its captor; 5. Rushing past our stop: failure demand, uneconomic growth and consolation goods; 6. Embracing Arrival and making ourselves at home
- What is a good life anyway?Getting it right first time around: preventing uneconomic growth and failure demand; What about decoupling?; 7. What we might find in making ourselves at home; Sharing and predistribution; Shared work, better work; Fulfilment beyond consumption; Stewardship of the commons; A circular and collaborative economy; New business practices; Participatory democracy; Globally: convergence, climate justice and leap-frogging; 8. Arrival and making ourselves at home in the real world; Development as creating the conditions of wellbeing; Two candidates for Arrival
- Stakeholder decision makingGood work; Pro-social business models; From conspicuous consumption to experientialism and conspicuous citizenship; A renewable and circular economy; Collaborative economy; 9. Are we nearly there yet?; Charting Arrival; Two contrasting countries; 10. From individual initiatives to wider change: agitation, amplification and attention; Pioneers, regimes and change agents; Arise and amplify; The new normal; Making good choices; Attention: talking about Arrival and making ourselves at home; Measuring making ourselves at home; 11. Choosing Arrival
- one step at a time
- Steps for international institutionsSteps for governments; Steps for businesses; Steps for cities and local communities; Steps for individuals; 12. Conclusion; Appendix; Further reading; Money and finance; Housing and land; Technology; Trade; Education; Politics; Notes; References; Index
