Trends in Globalization’ website (http://ablog.typepad.com/), the paper analyzes growth in four types of country typified by … the EU, the USA, India, and China. The fastest growth has been registered in China, which has followed a policy of … expansionary money with strong banking controls, combined with an investment-led stimulus. Strong growth has also however been …

dependency on resource exploitation and the sustainability of the chosen growth path With few notable exceptions, social theory … growth in demand for labour services, which would be, in Mark Swilling’s terminology, ‘resource-decoupled’, decreasing the … things to invest in humans. This poses an especial challenge for policy, since the growth of the creative industry sector …

prolonged exceptional growth which can be considered, at least economically, a solution to a crisis. I draw two immediate … means that sustainable growth, centered on the enhancement and extension of the human spirit instead of the material … the gross inequalities characterizing the present crisis; but, second, to initiate a new process of growth in which the …

Research and Experimental Development (R&D), particularly that which aims at innovation, that is, new social application. Not … confined to novel products or processes, arts and cultural innovation will yield altogether new ways in which arts and culture …