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17th Century Origins of the Growth Paradigm (and the full book: History of the Future of Economic Growth)

February 2017

In book: History of the Future of Economic Growth
Chapter: 17th Century Origins of the Growth Paradigm
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History of the Future of Economic Growth: Historical Roots of Current Debates on

Sustainable Degrowth, Edited by Iris Borowy and Matthias Schmelzer, Routledge 2017

Contents

Introduction: the end of economic growth in long-term perspective

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 CARADONNA

8 Sustainable degrowth: historical roots of the search for alternatives to growth in three

regions, BARBARA MURACA AND MATTHIAS SCHMELZER

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