Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The New Normal

1. The Great Balloon Race

2. The Sound of Air Escaping

3. Earth’s Limits: Why Growth Won’t Return

4. Won’t Innovation, Substitution, and Efficiency Keep Us Growing?

5. Shrinking Pie: Competition and Relative Growth in a Finite World

6. Managing Contraction, Redefining Progress

7. Life After Growth

Notes

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