Postgrowth and Wellbeing Challenges to Sustainable Welfare

Postgrowth and Wellbeing Challenges to Sustainable Welfare / by Milena Büchs, Max Koch.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Büchs, Milena (Author), Koch, Max (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Social policy.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Economic sociology.
Environmental sociology.
Political economy.
Economic growth.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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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