Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
(Part of the Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography Series)
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1478006390
ISBN13:9781478006398
Release Date:September 2019
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.54 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.2" x 8.9"
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