The Growth Delusion
Autor David Pillingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2019
Ne confruntăm cu o discrepanță flagrantă: statisticile oficiale ne spun că suntem mai bogați ca niciodată, însă realitatea percepută este cea a unei degradări constante a calității vieții. Problema centrală pe care The Growth Delusion o atacă este dependența noastră toxică de creșterea economică măsurată prin PIB, un indicator care ignoră aspecte vitale precum siguranța străzilor, sănătatea mintală sau sustenabilitatea mediului. David Pilling, folosindu-și expertiza de un sfert de secol la Financial Times, demonstrează cum această loialitate oarbă față de cifre dictează politici publice eronate.
Putem afirma că stilul autorului transformă o temă aridă într-o narațiune vibrantă. Spre deosebire de The Mismeasure of Progress de Stephen J. Macekura, care oferă o perspectivă istorică mai densă asupra modului în care PIB-ul a devenit standardul global, abordarea lui Pilling este mult mai aplicabilă și ancorată în reportajul de teren. El nu se limitează la teorie, ci folosește povești vii pentru a ilustra de ce „mai mult” nu înseamnă neapărat „mai bine”. Considerăm că această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească față de volumul său anterior, Bending Adversity. Dacă în acea lucrare David Pilling analiza capacitatea de supraviețuire a Japoniei în fața crizelor, aici el extinde cadrul, chestionând însăși definiția succesului într-o economie globală care pare să fi pierdut contactul cu nevoile umane de bază.
Structura narativă este alertă, specifică unui jurnalist de elită, reușind să explice mecanisme complexe fără a sacrifica rigoarea. Este o lectură care ne provoacă să regândim prioritățile societății moderne, oferind în final nu doar o critică, ci și soluții concrete pentru a corecta modul în care ne măsurăm progresul.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1408893746
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Descriere
'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
According to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? The Growth Delusion explores how we prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. So much of what is important to our well-being, from safe streets to sound minds, lies outside the purview of statistics. In a book that is both thought-provoking and entertaining, David Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies, and proposes different criteria for measuring our success.
Recenzii
A welcome antidote to the gospel according to GDP
A witty, well-informed and well-travelled guide to our obsession with growth ... If he sometimes makes fun of measurement, he also makes measurement fun. A real achievement
Engaging and enlightening, The Growth Delusion explains not only why the emperor has no clothes, but why he wasn't really the emperor in the first place
If you thought that GDP did not necessarily translate into increased welfare, David Pilling shows you convincingly why you were right. One of the Financial Times' most brilliant columnists, Pilling has produced a book that will become a classic
Excellent. The argument for better ways of measuring prosperity is steadily gathering momentum
A rare beast: a book on economics that is well written, accessible and - whisper it - entertaining! Witty, widely travelled and well-informed, David Pilling is an excellent guide to the pitfalls and shortcomings of GDP and a trenchant exponent of the need to move beyond the 'cult of growth'
Sharp and engaging ... Pilling argues that gross domestic product (GDP) is an arbitrary, oversimplified human invention that we slavishly follow, and growth is a modern "cult". Like all cults, it requires unquestioning allegiance - in this case the one-decimal-point figure produced by national statisticians every three months. Pilling, who has written about GDP from five continents over 20 years for the FT, started asking questions about the cult and couldn't stop ... Pilling is right that the spell needs to be broken ... Entertaining and well-argued
A surprisingly zippy book that has the potential to take a smart riposte of mindless growth into mainstream debate . Pilling isn't afraid to make the well-worn criticisms of GDP, and does with clarity and force. But the real beauty of the book is how effortlessly he takes this argument a step further, demonstrating how GDP often makes no sense whatsoever, even taken on its own terms . A wonderful book . A surprisingly addictive page turner, capable of captivating the general reader on a subject known for making eyes glaze over . By injecting a credible dose of ambivalence into common assumptions about GDP he offers a very welcome entry into post-2008 economic writing
Briskly and engagingly, David Pilling alerts us to our impoverished sense of reality in an age that has sacrificed quality to quantity. The Growth Delusion should be read by everyone who wants to make sense of the political earthquakes of our time
This is an excellent and timely book which should be mandatory reading for policymakers, economists, investors and, yes, journalists. It exposes the folly of our modern obsession with a narrow concept of economics and our reliance on gross domestic product data as a sign of well being - and does this in a lively, well written, and easy-to-understand way
Entertaining and well-argued
In The Growth Delusion Pilling makes an important yet complicated subject accessible to experts and non-experts alike. The book offers a most insightful and at times witty guide to the essential question: what precisely is economic growth for and how can it be harnessed to improve the lives of people in poor countries as well as rich ones?
This is a fascinating and extremely readable book which engagingly challenges many of our assumptions about what makes for a successful economy and a happy life
What economics needs now, what we all need, are people who can bring it back to life. In The Growth Delusion Pilling does exactly that, charting the idea of economic growth from its birth to the present through countless vivid stories