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Tomorrow's economy : a guide to creating healthy green growth / Per Espen Stoknes ; foreword by Paul Hawken.

Stoknes, Per Espen, (author.). Hawken, Paul, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"We must have growth. Yet further growth is impossible. This book attempts to solve the paradox of needing growth yet also needing to live within the earth's planetary boundaries"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262044851
ISBN: 0262044854
Physical Description: xvii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / by Paul Hawken -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Restor(y)ing growth -- 1. Your brain on growth -- 2. Sowing the seeds of tomorrow's economy: creating healthy growth -- 3. How economies are transformed: through grand waves of innovations -- Part II. The growth compass -- 4. Snatching wealth from the jaws of waste: greening growth -- 5. Telling gray growth from green growth, and green growth from healthy growth -- 6. Inclusive growth or growth only for the lucky few? -- 7. How to know healthy growth when you see it -- Part III. How? Getting practical -- A brief introduction to the triangular system -- 8. How to reorient companies toward healthy growth -- 9. How can I do anything that makes a difference? -- 10. Rebuilding government: an entrepreneurial, stimulating guardian? -- 11. Does it all add up? Four scenarios to 2050.