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Titolo: | Co-operatives in a post-growth era : creating co-operative economics / / editors, Sonja Novkovic and Tom Webb |
Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014 |
[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
Disciplina: | 330.1 |
338.973 | |
Soggetto topico: | Economics |
Environmental policy | |
Persona (resp. second.): | NovkovicSonja |
WebbTom | |
Note generali: | 6 Complexity: Shock, Innovation and Resilience. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover ; About the Editors ; More praise for Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Introduction: Co-operative Economics, Why Our World Needs It; Table 0.1 Types of co-operative and their members; What economics do we use?; The structure of the book; Notes; References; Part One: What is the New Economy and Why Do We Need It? ; 1 The World on a Collision Course and the Need for a New Economy; Preamble; The quadruple convergence; Crisis or crises?; The myths that sustain the dominant model; A new economy; Foundations of the new economy. |
Table 1.1 Matrix of needs and satisfiersFigure 1.1 Genuine Progress Indicators and Indices of Sustainable Economic Welfare for selected countries; Figure 1.2 The classic approach to the economic process; Figure 1.3 The ecological economic approach; Figure 1.4 Humanity's ecological footprint, 1961-2001; Table 1.2 World population, per capita income and number of ecosons; Table 1.3 The real size of the United States; Notes; References; 2 The New Economy; Introduction; Scale and growth -- or not?; Table 2.1 Six possible scenarios; Issues of resource scarcity and quality. | |
The meaning for economic theory -- and productionUsing prices to achieve goals; Work; The ideal economy; How standard wage theory must adapt; Conclusions; Notes; References; 3 The World We Need; Figure 3.1 Income per head and life expectancy in rich and poor countries; Figure 3.2 Real income per head and life expectancy; Figure 3.3 Child well-being is not related to average incomes in rich countries; Figure 3.4 Health and social problems are not related to average incomes in rich countries; Figure 3.5 Health is not related to income differences between rich societies. | |
Figure 3.6 Health is related to income difference within rich societiesFigure 3.7 Child well-being is better in more equal rich societies; Figure 3.8 Health and social problems are worse in more unequal countries; Notes; References; 4 Are Prosperity and Sustainability Compatible?; Introduction: on the nature of prosperity and sustainability; What makes us unsustainable?; Our excessive ecological footprint; Box 4.1. The human ecological footprint -- in overshoot; Human potential subverted; Facing the new reality; What to do? Towards a co-operative model for global sustainability. | |
The spectrum of behavioural possibilitiesTable 4.1 Elements of the human behavioural spectrum; Implications for economic life; Table 4.2 The shift in economic values and assumptions (getting better is better than getting bigger); Epilogue; Notes; References; 5 Living Well: Explorations into the End of Growth; Introduction; Exploring alternatives to economic growth; The LowGrow model; Figure 5.1 The high-level structure of LowGrow; Figure 5.2 Business as usual; Figure 5.3 A low- or no-growth scenario; Policy directions for a low- or no-growth scenario; Notes; References. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | An essential introduction to the co-operative business model as a sustainable and equitable alternative to the current growth-obsessed economic paradigm. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Co-operatives in a post-growth era |
ISBN: | 1-350-21938-X |
1-78360-080-2 | |
1-78360-077-2 | |
1-78360-079-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910787822503321 |
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