Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

  1. An Economic and Social Hurricane

  2. The Scream—We Are Their Children’s Children

  3. A Very Big Problem

  4. Beyond the Limits—The Great Disruption

  5. Addicted to Growth

  6. Global Foreshock—The Year That Growth Stopped

  7. The Road Ahead—Our Planetary Sat Nav

  8. Are We Finished?

  9. When the Dam of Denial Breaks

10. The One-Degree War

11. How an Austrian Economist Could Save the World

12. Creative Destruction on Steroids—Out with the Old, In with the New

13. Shifting Sands—From Middle Eastern Oil to Chinese Sun

14. The Elephant in the Room—Growth Doesn’t Work

15. The Happiness Economy

16. Yes, There Is Life After Shopping

17. No, the Poor Will Not Always Be with Us

18. Ineffective Inequality

19. The Future Is Here, It’s Just Not Widely Distributed Yet

20. Guess Who’s in Charge?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Further Reading

A Note on the Author

Imprint