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
    • policy database
  • 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)
      • Eat Forum
    • Local Currencies
      • Centre for New Economics
    • 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