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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History
Episode: Daniel Susskind, "Growth: A History and a Reckoning" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Description: Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History and a Reckoning (Harvard UP, 2024).Susskind acknowledges the tremendous benefits of economic growth, which he credits with freeing billions of people from poverty and allowing us to live longer and healthier lives. He also recognizes the real and substantial costs of our relentless pursuit of growth at the expense of other considerations and moral challenges. Responding to the degrowth movement, Susskind counters the assumption that simply reducing growth will lead to better outco...