Slowdown

The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing

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Pub Date 23 Feb 2021 | Archive Date 07 Jan 2021
Yale University Press, London | Yale University Press

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A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation​

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown


Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations.
 
Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be propelling our civilization into new and uncharted waters, the rate of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. Rather than lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the older great strides in progress that have defined recent history also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and massive inequality.
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation​

The end of our high-growth world was underway well...

Advance Praise

"Powerful, thought-provoking, and timely. Professor Dorling brilliantly exposes how spiraling work intensity, alongside bumper profits and freedoms for capital, cannot sustain people and planet. From stronger unions to a greener economy, he compellingly shows how we can choose a more hopeful and humane future."-Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress

"Dorling's optimism is infectious as he brilliantly explores the huge challenges of a slowing pace of growth while the world transitions to a new 'normal' of stable and then shrinking populations."-Vicky Pryce, author of Women vs Capitalism

"Powerful, thought-provoking, and timely. Professor Dorling brilliantly exposes how spiraling work intensity, alongside bumper profits and freedoms for capital, cannot sustain people and planet. From...


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ISBN 9780300257960
PRICE $16.00 (USD)
PAGES 416

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