The Westernization of the World: The Significance, Scope and Limits of the Drive Towards Global Uniformity

History

LATOUCHE, Serge

World

Polity Pr

This provocative new book argues that the rise of the West to world domination has brought widespread social, cultural and material destruction in its wake.

The Westernization of the World: Significance, Scope and Limits of the Drive Towards Global Uniformity

Business & Money

Economics

Polity

Farewell to Growth

Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much – too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems – namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only goal is growth for growth’s sake. 
Serge Latouche argues that we need to rethink from the very foundations the idea that our societies should be based on growth. He offers a radical alternative – a society of ‘de-growth’. De-growth is not the same thing as negative growth. We should be talking about ‘a-growth’, in the sense in which we speak of ‘a-theism’. And we do indeed have to abandon a faith or religion – that of the economy, progress and development―and reject the irrational and quasi-idolatrous cult of growth for growth’s sake. While many realize that that the never-ending pursuit of growth is incompatible with a finite planet, we have yet to come to terms with the implications of this – the need to produce less and consume less. But if we do not change course, we are heading for an ecological and human disaster. There is still time to imagine, quite calmly, a system based upon a different logic, and to plan for a ‘de-growth society’.

In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post-Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Zed Books

La décroissance

QUE SAIS JE

Le pari de la décroissance

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

FAYARD

La prégnance de l'économie sur la vie des hommes n'est pas plus à démontrer que leur morosité et leur souffrance. Comment s'est construit notre « imaginaire économique », notre vision économique du monde ? Pourquoi voyons-nous aujourd'hui le monde à travers les prisme de l'utilité, du travail, de la compétition, de la concurrence et de la croissance sans fins ? Nous avons inventé la valeur-travail, la valeur-argent, la valeur-compétition, et construit un monde où rien n'a plus de valeur mais où out possède un prix ? Au fil d'une passionnante mise en perspective historico-économique, Serge Latouche revient aux origines de cette économie que les premiers économistes appelaient la « science sinistre ». Servi par une brillante érudition économique et philosophique, cet ouvrage montre la manière dont s'est façonné notre obsession utilitariste et quantitative, et nous permet ainsi de porter un regard neuf sur notre monde.

Invention de L'Economie (L') (Collections Sciences - Sciences Humaines) (French Edition)

Science & Math

ALBIN MICHEL

L'occidentalisation du monde

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