Why Things Are Going to Get Worse - And Why We Should Be Glad (eBook)

Michael Roscoe (Autor)

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2014
352 Seiten
New Internationalist (Verlag)
978-1-78026-177-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The good times have gone forever and we must now adjust to a new reality of job creation and degrowth.

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The free-market capitalist system is in the process of collapse and we must now adjust to the reality of declining prosperity in the West. We should forget about growth and concentrate instead on the creation of jobs and reducing fossil fuel useand it isn't impossible to achieve these two apparently conflicting aims.This is the thrust of the author's arguments and through the use of clear consistent charts he builds his case up from first principles. He graphically illustrates every important point and creates a compelling and powerful picture of why it's bad, why it's going to get worse, and why this presents an opportunity to make things better.This is a vision of life in which we will be forced to confront the real issues. Among other things, we must recognize that all wealth comes from the earth, we must concentrate on creating jobs and sharing earnings more fairly, and we should have more regulation especially in relation to banks and corporations and reducing competition between nations. And most of all we must return to the real values of real industry away from the current obsession with making money from money.Mike Roscoe is a journalist with many years' experience in the interpretation of data and the illustration of such information in graphic form, accompanied by clear and concise text. He has worked at the Financial Times, the Economist, the Daily Telegraph, and the Independent.

Autor

Michael Roscoe: Michael Roscoe is a journalist with many years experience at the Economist and the Financial Times. Most recently he was Promotions Editor at the FT where he created charts and graphs illustrating data.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION PART ONE â Why Things Are BadCHAPTER 1 â THREE CHARTS Summary of the problemsCHAPTER 2 â WHAT IS WEALTH? Basic economics; GDP explainedCHAPTER 3 â WHAT HAPPENS TO WEALTH? The vanishing trillionsCHAPTER 4 â SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING An investigation into valuesCHAPTER 5 â THE VALUE OF MONEY A brief history of money and debtCHAPTER 6 â BETTING NAKED The growth of finance; derivatives explainedCHAPTER 7 â FROM WAREHOUSE TO WHOREHOUSE Earlyindustry and the dawn of tradeCHAPTER 8 â MEASURING WEALTH The accumulation of wealth and the importance of oilPART TWOâ Why Itâs Going To Get WorseCHAPTER 9 â WEALTH AND WORK The productivity problem; was Marx right? CHAPTER 10 â THE TECHNOLOGY DILEMMA Why real jobs are in declineCHAPTER 11 â VIRTUAL VALUES The internet as job killerCHAPTER 12 â LIVING IN NEVER-NEVER LAND Bubble trouble and the debt of nationsCHAPTER 13 â THE DECLINE OF EUROPE The Eurozone debt problem and lessons from JapanCHAPTER 14 â A RACE WITH NO WINNERS The high price of cheap goodsCHAPTER 15 â THE CASE FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISE Socialism is not a dirty wordCHAPTER 16 â TEN REASONS⦠Why the rich world is getting poorerPART THREE â Why We Should Be GladCHAPTER 17 â ECONOMY OR ECOLOGY? More jobs, less fossil fuel useCHAPTER 18 â LIFE WITHOUT OIL So what are the alternatives to fossil fuels?CHAPTER 19 â TIME TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM Re-evaluation of values; jobs firstCHAPTER 20 â JOBS WITHOUT GROWTH Politics that work, why we need global regulationCHAPTER 21 â WHERE NEXT? Likely trends; why the US will stay on topCHAPTER 22 â IS THERE A BETTER WAY? CONCLUSIONS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 1-78026-177-2 / 1780261772
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78026-177-5 / 9781780261775