Growth: A History and a Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind

Book Overview

A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.

Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674294491
• ISBN13: 9780674294493
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"