Hooked on Growth: Economic Addictions and the Environment

by Douglas E. Booth

Challenging conventional wisdom on the virtues of a consumer economy, this provocative book explores the nexus between growth and environment sustainability. The miracle of the modern affluent economy is an ever-swelling cornucopia of consumer goods, leading to expanding consumption as the essential underpinning of economic growth in more and more parts of the globe. Douglas Booth contends that expansion in this form amounts to an addiction. Are we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742527182
• ISBN13: 9780742527188
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"