Voluntary Simplicity – A Path to Sustainable Prosperity
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Manufacturing Growth: What is the path to prosperity in Africa?
What prevents sub-Saharan Africa from escaping poverty through the development of significant manufacturing industries? The first category of constraints are those external to firms, about which we have economic theories: scarcity of physical capital, taxes, poor infrastructure, lack of human capital, corruption, trade costs. A second category are those internal to firms, about which we know li...
متن کاملA path to sustainable energy by 2030.
by Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi Executive Summary The plan below demonstrates how the world can feasibly produce 100% of its energy by 2030 from sources with near-zero lifetime (including construction, operation and decommissioning) emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. Only technologies available and scalable today are included. These include wind, water, and solar (WWS) f...
متن کاملThrough Scarcity to Prosperity: A Theory of the Transition to Sustainable Growth
This paper integrates fertility choice and exhaustible resource dynamics in a tractable model of endogenous technological change. The analysis shows that, under the right conditions, the interdependence of population, resources and technology produces a transition from unsustainable resource-based growth to sustainable knowledge-based growth that consists of three phases: (1) an initial phase w...
متن کاملSustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability
There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined-at all scales-in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthr...
متن کاملThe Path to Prosperity: a Political Model of Demographic Change By
This paper presents a formal model that characterizes the political mechanisms of demographic change, establishing a critical link in economic development. We demonstrate that fertility decisions are determined by three fundamental political variables: political stability, political capacity and political freedom. Modeling strategic multi-objective policy setting by the government, we derive a ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Change Review
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2068-8016
DOI: 10.2478/scr-2013-0006