Is it time to re-think economic growth?

12th Nov 2009 00:00

Is it time to re-think economic growth? Join the most important conversation of our times.

Book launch: Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson

Time: 7pm
Speakers: Tim Jackson and Jonathon Porritt
RSVP: [email protected]

In the few months since the Sustainable Development Commission released its controversial report – ‘Prosperity Without Growth’ - President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked world leaders to join a revolution in the measurement of economic progress, Sir Nicholas Stern has warned ‘at some point we would have to think about whether we want future growth’, and John Prescott has called the current economic growth model 'immoral'. The debate about economic growth has really begun.

In Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet an updated and expanded version of the SDC report, Tim Jackson offers a new vision of a shared prosperity: the capability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. Fulfilling that vision is simply the most urgent task of our times. Read more here>

Books will be discounted on the night. Alternatively, order online here. For a 20% online discount enter code PWGPP in the voucher box.

Gudrun Freese
Marketing Executive
Earthscan
Tel: +44 (0)20 7841 1930
www.earthscan.co.uk

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