What's the economy for, anyway? why it's time to stop chasing growth and start pursuing happiness
"What's The Economy For, Anyway? is a thought-provoking, funny, readable, anti-ideological book based on the cult hit film of the same name. Here, scholars John de Graaf (author of Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen touchstone economic issues and challenge readers to consider just what the...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The grossest domestic product
- The pursuit of happiness
- Provisioning the good life
- Unhealthy at any cost
- Risky business
- The time squeeze
- The greatest number
- The capacity question
- The longest run : sustainability
- Ancient
- When (or how) good went bad
- The housing, banking, finance, debt, bankruptcy, foreclosure, unemployment, currency-- hell-of-a-mess crisis
- Building a Twenty-first-century economy of life, liberty, and happiness.
