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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen J MacekuraPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226736303ISBN 10: 022673630 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 04 November 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Meaning and Measurement of Economic Growth 1 Standard of Living, GNP, and the Narrowing of National Statistics 2 Decolonization and the Limits of Economic Measurement 3 The Growth Critics 4 The Growth Paradigm in Crisis 5 The Search for Alternatives 6 Revival and Debate at the End of the Twentieth Century Conclusion: History, Narrative, and Contemporary Growth Critics Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book asks a profoundly important question: What counts as progress? Since the mid-twentieth century, the answer has been the narrow one: economic growth as measured by GDP. Although there have been genuine gains from higher incomes and innovation, this has undermined progress by undervaluing many kinds of work, increasing inequality to a socially intolerable degree, and hastening climate change and environmental degradation. Macekura argues convincingly that we need a better future and better measures. --Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge The Mismeasure of Progress is a highly readable and informative book about the champions and critics of the idea of economic growth over the last several decades. Macekura writes with the kind of urgency and engage spirit that makes this book not only good scholarship but an important public intervention. --Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College Author InformationStephen J. Macekura is associate professor of international studies at Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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