Escape from Overshoot

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Victor, Peter A. Escape from Overshoot: economics for a planet in peril. New Society Publishers. Gabriola Island. 2023.

Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Prologue: A Planet in Peril
  • 1 Overshoot - A Look at the Evidence
    • Overshoot
    • The Economy as a Sub-System of the Planet
    • Material Flows
    • Forests
    • Agriculture
    • The Great Acceleration
    • Biodiversity
  • 2 How to Think About the Future
  • 3 Voices from the Past - Economic Growth and its Critics
    • From Progress to Economic Growth
    • Classical Economics and Economic Growth
    • Neoclassical Economic Takes Center Stage
    • Critics of Economic Growth
    • Environmental Economics
    • Conclusion
  • 4 The Economic System - How Does It Work?
    • The Neoclassical Capitalist Economy
    • The Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Capitalist Economy
    • The Marxian and Post-Marxian Capitalist Economy
    • Conclusion
  • 5 Current Trends to an Uncertain Future
    • Economic Trends
    • Demographic Trends
    • Income Inequality Trends
    • Investment Trends
    • Consumption Trends
    • Technology Trends
    • Work Trends
    • Energy Trends
    • Conclusion
  • 6 Green Growth - A Dangerous Distraction?
    • Defining Green Growth
    • Growth of Many Colors
    • Does Increased Efficiency Lead to Decoupling?
    • Future Prospects for Green Growth
    • Stocks not Flows: The Achilles Heel of Green Growth
    • Green Investment
    • Barriers to Green Growth
      • Decoupling Debunked
      • Cost shifting
      • Insufficient and inappropriate technological change
      • Limited potential of recycling
      • The underestimated impact of services
      • Problem shifting
      • Rebound effects
      • Rising energy expenditures
    • Conclusion
  • 7 Post Growth Possibilities
    • Steady-State Economy
    • Circular Economy
    • Wellbeing Economy
    • Buen Vivir
    • Doughnut Economics
    • Regenerative Economy
    • Degrowth
    • Ecosocialism
    • Conclusion
  • 8 Modeling an Escape from Overshoot
    • The Story So Far
    • From Local to Global to Overshoot
    • Contraction and Convergence
      • What is Just with Regard to the Climate? J.C. Tremmel
    • Reprising the Limits to Growth
      • Earth4All
      • End poverty
      • Address gross inequality
      • Shift more power to women
      • Make our food system healthy for people and ecosystems
      • Transition to clean energy
    • The Plausibility and Possibility of a Planned Contraction of a High-Income Economy
      • LowGrow SFC model
  • 9 Planning an Escape from Overshoot
    • Fourteen Propositions for Planning an Escape from Overshoot
    • Living the Escape from Overshoot
    • Reforms on the Path to Escape
      • Regulating Emerging Technologies (International Risk Governance Centre)
      • Alternative Forms of Provisioning (within planetary boundaries)
      • Local Currencies
      • Checking the Power of Rentiers
      • Aiming for Satisfaction (finding flow)
        • Doughnut Economics Action Lab
    • Conclusion
      • understand what we are escaping from
      • have an idea of our desired destination
      • need a path to get us to our desired destination
      • an escape plan needs resources
      • understand, confront, and overcome key obstacles (gross inequality of income and wealth; maldistribution of political power and influence)
      • decide how best to use your talents, interests, and resources to help find an escape
      • work individually and collectively
      • rethink the roles our society gives households, markets, commons, and government
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • About New Society Publishers