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

by Per Espen Stoknes, Paul Hawken (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262543859
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	04/12/2022
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	1,064,678
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Per Espen Stoknes is Director of the Center for Green Growth at the European Business School in Norway. His award-winning book What We Think About When We Try Not to Think About Global Warming became the focus of a TED Talk with more than 2.6 million views.

Table of Contents

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
Further Reading 341
Index 347

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Too often growth supporters and anti-growthers come to loggerheads, neglecting the crucial issue of what kind of economic growth we’re creating. Stoknes’s growth compass is a crucial tool to guide us toward a finer future.”
—Hunter Lovins, coauthor of Natural Capitalism
 
 “Per Espen Stoknes makes a compelling case for the need to change our minds as much as our systems—and to open both to the possibility of healthy growth. His view as a psychologist versed in economics is refreshing.” 
—Jane Gleeson-White, author of Six Capitals and Double Entry
 
“Rising to the central challenge of our century, Stoknes brings welcome order to the chaos around the concept of green growth, charting a course for economic value creation while simultaneously reducing our ecological footprint. He makes it clear that meeting this challenge does not require us to stop economic growth.”
—Jørgen Randers, author of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years and coauthor of The Limits to Growth