What's the economy for, anyway? why it's time to stop chasing growth and start pursuing happiness
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608195145 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1608195147 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (ix, 292 p.) : ill. - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The grossest domestic product -- The pursuit of happiness -- Provisioning the good life -- Unhealthy at any cost -- Risky business -- The time squeeze -- The greatest number -- The capacity question -- The longest run : sustainability -- Ancient -- When (or how) good went bad -- The housing, banking, finance, debt, bankruptcy, foreclosure, unemployment, currency-- hell-of-a-mess crisis -- Building a Twenty-first-century economy of life, liberty, and happiness. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | United States -- Economic conditions Economic development -- United States Happiness -- United States |
Genre: | Electronic books. |