Contents: 1. The Litany 2. Human welfare 3. Can human prosperity continue? 4. Pollution : does it undercut human prosperity? 5. Tomorrow's problems 6. The real state of the world.
World-renowned futurist Hazel Henderson extends her twenty-five years of work in economics to examine the havoc the current economic system is creating at the global level. Markets are now spreading worldwide - a spread which is often equated with the hope of democracy spreading along with it. But markets still run on old textbook models that ignore social and environmental costs - leading to a…