The Bubble Economy Is Sustainable Growth Possible

Free Download Robert U. Ayres, "The Bubble Economy: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?"
English | ISBN: 0262027437 | 2014 | 370 pages | EPUB | 1296 KB
Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial "de-carbonization" could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.

The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks "too big to fail," financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. Wall Street has discovered that it is more profitable to make money from other people’s money than by investing in the real economy, which has limited access to capital-resulting in slow growth and rising inequality. What we haven’t heard much about is the role of natural resources-energy in particular-as drivers of economic growth, or the connection of "global warming" to the economic crisis. In The Bubble Economy
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