The real global decoupling you should be worried about https://t.co/RHMd0RMPy8
The real global decoupling you should be worried about https://t.co/RHMd0RMPy8
Free-market capitalism has a firm answer. If economic growth demands that we loosen family bonds, encourage people to live away from their parents, and import carers from the other side of the world – so be it.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
This realisation first struck home in 1972, when a team of scientists at MIT published a groundbreaking report titled Limits to Growth. The report outlined findings from the team’s cutting-edge work using a powerful computer model called World3, which was designed to analyse complex ecological, social and economic data from 1900 to 1970, and to pre
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless offset by immigration.
Greg Ip • The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World (Little Books. Big Profits)
As an economy concentrates, many social ties are inevitably broken as companies, jobs, and work disappear from regions.