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The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World

The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World


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How mainstream economics lost touch with reality People in power tell us that growth is the surest path to a better life. This idea has shaped policy across the globe for over two hundred years, promising economic benefits to the many, without sacrifices. We have clung to this promise while witnessing the collapse of natural ecosystems necessary to sustain human life, quietly resisting any correlation between the two. Meanwhile, scientists were busy confirming a direct link between our growing commercial footprint and ecological destruction. By divorcing the idea of growth from the realities faced by most people alive today, politicians have only exacerbated critical issues of the day: monopoly power, worker exploitation, resource wars and the rich–poor divide. Tracing the long battle to put a price on our planet, Christopher Jones offers hope for the future. Humans have not always believed that economic growth should be infinite. We can still create new ideas about how to promote environmental sustainability, human welfare, and even responsible growth, with the wellbeing of the planet in mind.

About the Author :
Christopher Jones is a historian of energy, economics, and the environment based at Arizona State University. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard University Center for Environment and was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow in Natural Resources and Political Economy at the University of California-Berkeley, and is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2014).

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‘Clear, enjoyable and insightful… Jones has achieved a scholarly miracle. The origins and intellectual success of the growth fetish among Anglo-American economists, and the policymakers who listen to them, is among the most consequential yet neglected stories of modern times.’ —J. R. McNeill, author of Something New Under the Sun ‘Superb scholarship and writing on the most important untold story of our time.’ —David W. Orr, author of Dangerous Years


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  • ISBN-13: 9780861540051
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Oneworld Publications
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World
  • ISBN-10: 0861540050
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Returnable: N


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