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The Growth Delusion

The Growth Delusion

Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

by David Pilling
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Publication Date: 29/01/2019
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We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, sets the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is economists who set the agenda for how much we can spend on our schools and defense; who decide how much unemployment is acceptable and whether it is right to bail out profligate banks. But the backlash we are currently witnessing suggests that the language of economics no longer resonates with people's experiences and values. In this incisive book, David Pilling dives into the biases and failings of our obsession with economic growth and explores possible alternatives to GDP. Authoritative and eye-opening, The Growth Delusion offers witty insights into how our society can respond to the needs of real people instead of pursuing growth at any cost. Book jacket.
ISBN:
9780525572510
9780525572510
Category:
Economics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-01-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
The Crown Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
203.2x132.08x17.78mm
Weight:
0.25kg
David Pilling

David Pilling has been a prize-winning reporter and editor with the Financial Times for twenty-five years. Throughout most of his career he has been a foreign correspondent and has worked and reported from Asia to America and from Africa to Latin America.

Currently the Africa editor for the Financial Times, he was previously the Asia editor, running coverage across the continent, while for the past decade, he has also been one of the newspaper's featured columnists. He has conducted dozens of interviews with world leaders, business executives, economists, artists and novelists from around the world.

He is the winner of several journalistic prizes, including Best Commentator prize by the Society of Publishers in Asia in both 2011 and 2012 and Best Foreign Commentator for 2011 in the UK's Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards for coverage of China, Japan and Pakistan. His first book, Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival (Allen Lane, 2014), received outstanding reviews. David Pilling lives in London but travels frequently to Africa.

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