Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness - How to Build a World Where Everyone Has Enough

What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for non-human nature, and increase wellbeing? This book explores ways the reader can live their life, engage with cultural change, and engage with policy making, to build that world.

List of contents

1. Happiness, Poverty, Sustainability 2. The Psychology of Enough 3. Building a Life with Enough 4. Economics Based on Scarcity and Infinite Growth 5. Capitalism, Socialism, and Solidarity Economics 6. Eliminating Extreme Poverty and Developing an Economics for Enough 7. Policies and Politics to Get to a World of Enough

About the author

Cynthia Kaufman is the Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action De Anza College and is the author of Challenging Power, The Sea Is Rising and So Are We, Getting Past Capitalism, and Ideas for Action.

Summary

What would it take to have a world where everyone had enough? How can we eliminate poverty, leave enough for non-human nature, and increase wellbeing? This book explores ways the reader can live their life, engage with cultural change, and engage with policy making, to build that world.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Kaufman, Kaufman Cynthia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032408231
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240823-1
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Consumerism