Product Description: Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy? ..The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, endless choice and the pleasures of the body...read more

Product Description: This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act...read more

Product Description: For decades our political leaders and opinion makers have touted higher incomes as the way to a better future. Economic growth means better lives for us all. But after many years of sustained economic growth and increased personal incomes we must confront an awful fact: we aren't any happier...read more

Product Description: Climate change on a global scale has been described as 'the mother of all environmental issues', with many scientists warning of the dire consequences already facing us, even if remedial action is undertaken immediately. It is almost certainly the largest, most difficult environmental challenge the world now faces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text reflects the shift in applied-policy work of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which has changed radically in recent years with the "globalization" of the world economy. The collection features current analyses of key issues such as productivity, the current account, taxation, technological change, strategic trade policy...read more