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Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind is a longlisted contender for the 2024 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year, promising to reshape your understanding of economic growth.
This enlightening book serves as a profound exploration of the intricate relationship between growth and society. Over the past 200 years, economic growth has lifted billions from poverty, yet it has also birthed severe inequalities, environmental degradation, and destabilizing technologies. Susskind compellingly argues that addressing these challenges is the defining issue of our time.
As stagnation looms in various economies - from the UK to China - the author offers a necessary reevaluation of growth's role in our lives. Traditional views often clash, with some advocating for a focus on degrowth as a path forward, while others cling to the belief that growth is essential for prosperity. Susskind deftly navigates this debate, presenting the idea that we must not abandon growth but rather redirect it towards what we truly value.
With its lucid prose and rigorous research, Growth: A Reckoning is not just a book; it’s an essential guide for anyone seeking to navigate the complexities of modern economic life.
ISBN: | 9780241542309 |
Author: | Daniel Susskind |
Format: | Hardback |
Imprint: | Allen Lane |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Dimensions: | 241 x 160 x 34 mm |
Publication Date: | 16 April, 2024 |
Pagination: | 368 pages |
Weight: | 582g |
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Sherlock & Pages is a little bookshop with a big heart. We are based in Frome, Somerset, England and curate lists of books in the areas we are passionate about – landscape, nature, history, and heritage. In short, the conservation of all we’ve inherited and all we are responsible to pass on. We aim to inspire and be inspired, to form a literary culture of care and passion about this precious planet we call home.
This is a shop where you might find something you haven’t seen before, and we like to think we’ve got something for everyone. We choose each of our books with care and for a reason. This is because our physical store is small but beautifully formed, holding only around 1200 titles at any one time. We try and recreate the feel of the shop wherever we are online, to reflect our niche categories and personality.
We have an active social media presence and aim to share our story with all our friends. The long-term goal is to build a hub for the books and writers we believe in. Who knows where our adventure will lead but by supporting Sherlock & Pages you’re helping us to add a further layer of magic to our little corner of the world. If you haven’t visited our physical store, one day you might just make a literary pilgrimage down to Somerset.
Our tagline is ‘Long Live the Hedgerows’ and our symbol a hibernating dormouse. If you want to support an independent with a unique character and which will share stories with you for years to come, then choose Sherlock & Pages. The world needs bookshops with soul, for they are ‘citadels of light.’