Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness

How to Build a World Where Everyone Has Enough
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-40822-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 228 g

What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for nonhuman nature, and increase well-being? This book explores ways the reader can live their life, engage with cultural change, and engage with policy making, to build that world.

We are presently on a path to environmental destruction, as our societies are driven by forces which leave many people without what they need to meet their basic needs, while also wasting vast resources on an unsatisfying consumer economy. The current system does not lead to a sense of wellbeing, even among those who are relatively materially comfortable. This book focuses on solutions for building a world of enough. It explains how we can reorient our thinking and take the steps necessary to transform our social systems. It looks at ways to reduce the insatiable desire for status and consumption that drive our economies. It focuses on emerging approaches to economics that take well-being as their goal and explores the policies that are crucial for getting there, such as reducing inequality, investing in public goods, and reducing work time. The book arms the reader with a variety of tools for building a world where everyone has enough for a good life.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufman, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Happiness, Poverty, Sustainability 2. The Psychology of Enough 3. Building a Life with Enough 4. Economics Based on Scarcity and Infinite Growth 5. Capitalism, Socialism, and Solidarity Economics 6. Eliminating Extreme Poverty and Developing an Economics for Enough 7. Policies and Politics to Get to a World of Enough

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Kaufman is the Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action De Anza College and is the author of Challenging Power, The Sea Is Rising and So Are We, Getting Past Capitalism, and Ideas for Action.