TY - BOOK AU - Susskind,Daniel TI - Growth: a history and a reckoning SN - 9780674294493 AV - HD75 .S896 2024 U1 - 338.9 23/eng/20230822 PY - 2024///] CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Economic development KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Economic history KW - Negative growth (Economics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Trap --; The Escape --; The Priority --; The Promise --; The Price --; GDP Minimalism --; Degrowth --; Unleashing Growth --; A New Direction --; The Big Tradeoffs --; The Moral Questions N2 - "Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of prosperity are too great to discard. Instead we must face hard tradeoffs, demoting growth from our top priority and reckoning with its moral challenges"-- ER -