Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth [Paperback]

How we can achieve healthy growth--more regenerative than destructive, restoring equity rather than exacerbating inequalities.

In Tomorrow's Economy, Per Espen Stoknes reframes the hot-button issue of economic growth. Going beyond the usual dialectic of pro-growth versus anti-growth, Stoknes calls for healthy growth. Healthy economic growth is more regenerative than destructive, repairs problems rather than greenwashing them, and restores equity rather than exacerbating global inequalities. Stoknes--a psychologist, economist, climate strategy researcher, and green-tech entrepreneur--argues that we have the tools to achieve healthy growth, but our success depends on transformations in government practices and individual behavior. Stoknes provides a compass to guide us toward the mindset, mechanisms, and possibilities of healthy growth.Foreword by Paul Hawken ix
Preface xiii
INTRODUCTION 1
PART I RESTOR(Y)ING GROWTH
1 YOUR BRAIN ON GROWTH 19
2 SOWING THE SEEDS OF TOMORROW’S ECONOMY: CREATING HEALTHY GROWTH 45
3 HOW ECONOMIES ARE TRANSFORMED: THROUGH GRAND WAVES OF INNOVATIONS 65
PART II THE GROWTH COMPASS
4 SNATCHING WEALTH FROM THE JAWS OF WASTE: GREENING GROWTH 97
5 TELLING GRAY GROWTH FROM GREEN GROWTH, AND GREEN GROWTH FROM HEALTHY GROWTH 115
6 INCLUSIVE GROWTH OR GROWTH ONLY FOR THE LUCKY FEW? 139
7 HOW TO KNOW HEALTHY GROWTH WHEN YOU SEE IT 165
PART III HOW? GETTING PRACTICAL
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE TRIANGULAR SYSTEM 209
8 HOW TO REORIENT COMPANIES TOWARD HEALTHY GROWTH 215
9 HOW CAN I DO ANYTHING THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE? 237
10 REBUILDING GOVERNMENT: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL, STIMULATING GUARDIAN? 251
11 DOES IT ALL ADD UP? FOUR SCENARIOS TO 2050 271
Acknowledgments 295
Notes 297