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Farewell to Growth

Serge Latouche
ISBN: 978-0-7456-4616-9
Hardcover
180 pages
December 2009, Polity
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  • This book is a timely and provocative critique of our obsession with economic growth and ever-more consumption
  • The author proposes a radical alternative - a constructive programme for a society of ‘a-growth' which would be freed from the preoccupation with economic growth
  • This book ties in directly to current debates about the financial crisis and how to move beyond it, as well as debates about how to create a more sustainable society which is conpatible with a finite planet
  • Serge Latouche is a leading French social thinker, well-known for his work on the economics and politics of development

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