Post Growth Thinking In India Towards Sustainable Egalitarian Alternatives

Post Growth Thinking In India Towards Sustainable Egalitarian Alternatives

This book discusses the relevance of prosperity without growth or post - growth for India, at a time when grassroots alternatives confront and question the consequences of growth. Post growth calls for a resizing and reorganisation of the social metabolism that would allow societies to live within their ecological means and within democratic, equitable and localised economies. This book presents diverse alternatives to the current growth - driven model of development. It also presents aspects of the criticism of economics as a discipline bound by the laws of free markets and capitalism and discusses post - growth through the laws of energetics and ecological economics, eco-socialism, ecological democracy and issues of environmental justice and violence, as voiced in India.