History of the Future of Economic Growth

List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: the end of economic growth in long-term perspective Iris Borowy and Matthias Schmelzer 1 Seventeenth-century origins of the growth paradigm Gareth Dale 2 Growth unlimited: the idea of infinite growth from fossil capitalism to green capitalism Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Christophe Bonneuil 3 The end of gold? Monetary metals studied at the planetary and human scale during the classical gold standard era Andrea Westermann 4 Gross domestic problem: how the politics of GDP shaped society and the world Lorenzo Fioramonti 5 Development and economic growth: an intellectual history Stephen Macekura 6 Economic growth and health: evidence, uncertainties, and connections over time and place Iris Borowy 7 An incompatible couple: a critical history of economic growth and sustainable development Jeremy L. Caradonna 8 Sustainable degrowth: historical roots of the search for alternatives to growth in three regions Barbara Muraca and Matthias Schmelzer Index