The Growth Delusion
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A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we
measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning
editor of The Financial TimesIn The Growth Delusion, author and
prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists and
their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making and
infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work. Our
policies are geared relentlessly towards increasing our standard
measure of growth, Gross Domestic Product. By this yardstick we
have never been wealthier or happier.So why doesn't it feel that
way? Why are we living in such fractured times, with global
populism on the rise and wealth inequality as stark as ever?In a
book that is simultaneously trenchant, thought-provoking and
humorous, Pilling argues that we need to measure our successes and
failures using different criteria. While for economic growth,
heroin consumption and prostitution are worth more than volunteer
work or public services, in a rational world we would learn how to
value what makes economies better, not just what makes them bigger.
So much of what is important to our wellbeing, from clean air to
safe streets and from steady jobs to sound minds, lies outside the
purview of our standard measure of success.We prioritise growth
maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. In prose
that cuts through the complex language so often wielded by a
priesthood of economists, Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty
to growth is informing misguided policies - and contributing to a
rising mistrust of experts that is shaking the very foundations of
our democracy.
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Bloomsbury Publishing ,
David Pilling
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
David Pilling
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