Why Things Are Going to Get Worse - And Why We Should Be Glad
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1780261764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Voted one of the Times Higher Education's Books of 2014
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.
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. 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 use—and 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 op
"Intriguing Data, Great Economic Program" according to Dick_Burkhart. Roscoe develops a great economic program for a world reaching its limits-to-growth, based on intriguing numbers and a multiplicity of very readable graphs. For example, he estimates that a third of current world GDP consists of a credit bubble (p. 1Intriguing Data, Great Economic Program Dick_Burkhart Roscoe develops a great economic program for a world reaching its limits-to-growth, based on intriguing numbers and a multiplicity of very readable graphs. For example, he estimates that a third of current world GDP consists of a credit bubble (p. 14). Real wealth comes from the earth, as extended by human labor, and service jobs only help spread this real wealth (p. 19-20). Over half of all the wealth ever created has c. ). Real wealth comes from the earth, as extended by human labor, and service jobs only help spread this real wealth (p. 19-20). Over half of all the wealth ever created has c. Non conventional viewpoint The author is presenting multiple ideas and opinions about the current state of the global and local economies. Very easy to follow throughout the whole book and his Ideas are easy to grasp. He brings on the scene such topics as depletion of the fossil fuels, tax evasion, redistribution of wealth, wealth creation and also breaking it through enlightenment and current philosophical views of Rawls, Humme and Lock.