Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa

by Julie Livingston

Book Overview

Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006390
• ISBN13: 9781478006398
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.9"