The Infinite Desire for Growth

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Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realistic Economic growth--and the hope of better things to come-is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over

Daniel Cohen is director of the Economics Department at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris and a founding member of the Paris School of Economics. A former adviser to the World Bank, Cohen was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2001. His many books include Globalization and Its Enemies and The Prosperity of Vice.

"An utterly absorbing journey from the wheel to the iPhone."---Sharon Shinn, BizEd "A compact book whose easy-reading style could easily obscure the profundity of its argument. Daniel Cohen's ultimately hopeful message is that the waning of the religion of growth could create the space for a renewed humanism." * Prospect * "[A] stimulating book of wide scope drawing on a range of disciplines."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer "The book is a statement of hope, a plea for mankind to stop running in the rat race and start seeing the roses. Amen!"---J. Bhattacharya, Choice