Reinventing Prosperity: Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality and Climate Change

The biggest challenges facing human well-being today--widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation--may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we must come up with solutions acceptable to a political majority in the rich world, they are much harder to solve in practice. Most commonly proposed "solutions" are not acceptable to most people. Many of these proposed solutions- like stopping fossil fuels- require a sacrifice today to obtain an uncertain advantage in the far future. Therefore they are politically infeasible in the modern world, marked by relatively short-term thinking.

In Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers provide a new approach altogether through thirteen politically acceptable recommendations that can be implemented in the current period of slow economic growth worldwide. Reinventing Prosperity solves the forty-year-old growth/no-growth standoff by solving income inequality, continuing global poverty, and climate change. This solution will provide for economic growth but with a declining ecological footprint.

Reinventing Prosperity shows us how to live better on our finite planet--and in ways, we can agree on.