Reinventing Prosperity

Reinventing Prosperity
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The biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today are widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation. Luckily, these problems are simple to solve — in theory.In practice, however, they are much harder to solve, because we are required to come up with solutions that are acceptable to a political majority in the rich world. Most of the commonly proposed “solutions” are simply not acceptable to most people. Many of these proposed solutions — like stopping the use of fossil fuels — require a sacrifice today in order to obtain an uncertain advantage in the far future. Therefore they are politically infeasible in the modern world, which is marked by relatively short term thinking.In Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers provide a new approach altogether through thirteen recommendations which are both politically acceptable and which can be implemented in the current period of slow economic growth around the world. Reinventing Prosperity solves the forty year old growth/no-growth standoff, by providing a solution to income inequality, continuing global poverty and climate change, a solution that will provide for economic growth but with a declining ecological footprint.Reinventing Prosperity shows us how to live better on our finite planet — and in ways we can agree on.

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Graeme Maxton. Reinventing Prosperity

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– PRAISE FOR REINVENTING PROSPERITY –

“The world faces a number of monumental challenges, ranging from persistent inequality and the aging of the population to climate change and the rise of the robot. In this innovative, accessible, and persuasive book, Maxton and Randers show that we don’t need revolutionary changes to meet these challenges. They tell us how big changes can be—indeed, can only be—achieved through a set of reforms that are moderate enough to be politically feasible in the short run. It is an essential guide to those who want to change the world for the better—and for certain.”

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It does in poor societies. Rising output tends to improve well-being when most people have low incomes. The answer is not as clear when it comes to rich nations, unfortunately. Remember, GDP measures the level of economic activity, not the level of happiness. It increases when more people work, when they create more value per person per year. But it also increases when they work on tasks that are socially undesirable, such as repairing the damage caused by climate change, work that effectively wastes human input, energy, and resources because it only fixes the unwelcome consequences of previous activities. So rising GDP does not always lead to higher average levels of well-being.

It is important to understand that economic growth is mostly dependent on improved productivity. Improved productivity means that fewer resources, in the form of workers, energy, and raw materials mostly, are required to generate a given level of output. Or, put another way, while the volume of inputs remains unchanged (workers, energy, and raw materials), the volume produced increases.

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