Postgrowth and Wellbeing : Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

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...

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Main Authors Büchs, Milena (Author), Koch, Max (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319599038
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-59903-8
Physical DescriptionXV, 144 p. 8 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Capitalist development and the growth paradigm
  • Chapter 3 Growth and the welfare state as we know it
  • Chapter 4 Critiques of growth
  • Chapter 5 Postgrowth and human wellbeing
  • Chapter 6: The generation of human wellbeing - social practices theory
  • Chapter 7: Welfare in a global steady-state economy
  • Chapter 8: Conclusions.

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