Postgrowth and Wellbeing: Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

by Max Koch and Milena Büchs

Book Overview

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331959902X
• ISBN13: 9783319599021
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"