Postgrowth and Wellbeing : Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

• Main Authors: Büchs, Milena (Author), Koch, Max (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Economic growth.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economic sociology.; Environmental sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319599038
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59903-8
• Physical Description: XV, 144 p. 8 illus. online resource.

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on...