Growth fetish / Clive Hamilton
- Bib ID:
- 3568503
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- Book
- Author:
- Hamilton, Clive
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- Description:
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- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004
- xvii, 262 p. : port. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0745322514
- 0745322506
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Introduction ix
- 1 Growth fetishism 1
- The growth fetish 1
- Economists on wellbeing 7
- The great contradiction 14
- Political implications 17
- 2 Growth and wellbeing 22
- Income 22
- Personal happiness 33
- Values and meaning 46
- Alternative measures 54
- 3 Identity 62
- Having and wanting 62
- Consumption and the modern self 66
- Marketing 79
- Overconsumption 92
- 4 Progress 98
- The idea of progress 98
- Oppression and liberation 103
- Globalisation 116
- 5 Politics 122
- The Third Way 122
- The power of economic ideas 133
- Power and equality 139
- 6 Work 147
- Rethinking work 147
- The new labour market 154
- In praise of housework 164
- Work in a post-growth world 170
- 7 Environment 174
- The voraciousness of growth 174
- The conquering spirit 184
- A philosophical transition 191
- Environmentalism and social democracy 197
- 8 The post-growth society 205
- Political downshifting 205
- Eudemonism: the politics of happiness 209
- Starting the transition 217
- The post-growth economy 223
- Power and social structure 232
- Notes 241
- Index 256.
- Notes:
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- First published in 2003 by Allen & Unwin, Australia.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-255) and index.
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