Recent events including the financial crisis and the gradual lessening of the planet's natural resources have raised the fundamental question as to whether the capitalist market system can survive its own contradictions or whether we are witnessing the outset of a profound change in...

"Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption - and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems - to sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the idea of degrowth as an economic...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- 1 Addressing Our Environmental Crisis -- 2 Beyond False Solutions -- 3 The Case Against Economic Growth -- 4 The Degrowth Alternative -- 5 Questions and Critiques -- 6 Pathways for Change -- References --...

1. The entropy law and the economic problem (1970) / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- 2. Energy and economic myths (1972) / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- 3. The steady state and the ecological salvation (1977) : a thermodynamic analysis / Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- 4. Inequality, limits and growth...