The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics Erickson Jon D.
The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics Erickson Jon D. We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty…
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The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics Erickson Jon D.
We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. Jon Erickson asks, why? In fact, the infallibility of the free market and the necessity of endless growth are so ingrained in the public consciousness that they seem like scientific fact.
And how can we get past the illusion to design an economy that is socially just and ecologically balanced?In The Progress Illusion, Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. With the planet in peril and humanity in crisis, how did we get duped into believing the fairytale of economics? Drawing on his own experience as a young economist inoculated in the 1980s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how pseudoscience came to
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