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The Big Flatline - Oil And The No-Growth Economy

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No Growth, No Problem.

The Big Flatline argues that the end of growth is inevitable due to the end of cheap fuel and resources, and instead of trying to renew prosperity, it reveals how our day-to-day lives will be drastically changed. This book is a good read for those who want to understand how the end of cheap oil signals the end of growth, and how people can live contented lives in places with slow or no growth.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Big Flatline - Oil And The No-Growth Economy

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ISBN: 9780230342187
Authors: Jeff Rubin
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date of Publication: 2012-10-16
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Economics
Goodreads rating: 3.96
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In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where growth is over?Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, the measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole. Both politicians and economists are missing the fact that the real engine of economic growth has always been cheap, abundant fuel and resources. But that era is over. The end of cheap oil, Rubin argues, signals the end of growth--and the end of easy answers to renewing prosperity.With China and India sucking up the lion's share of the world's ever more limited resources, the rest of us will have to make do with less. But is this all bad? Rubin points out that there is no research to show that peopl
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No Growth, No Problem.

The Big Flatline argues that the end of growth is inevitable due to the end of cheap fuel and resources, and instead of trying to renew prosperity, it reveals how our day-to-day lives will be drastically changed. This book is a good read for those who want to understand how the end of cheap oil signals the end of growth, and how people can live contented lives in places with slow or no growth.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.