Consumption, Jobs and the Environment A

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view. It threatens ecological catastrophe while perpetuating poverty. Roy Carr-Hill and John Lintott propose an alternative policy framework based explicitly on welfare and suggest where cuts in consumption, working hours and ecological risks might be made most usefully.

Roy Carr-Hill is Professor in Medical and Social Statistics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. John Lintott is at South Bank University.

List of Boxes, Figures and Tables

viii

Preface

ix

Introduction: the Purpose and Structure of this Book

1

(12)

The failure of growth policies

3

(3)

The role of economics

6

(2)

How do we move forward?

8

(5)

Part I Three Major Unsolved Problems

13

(102)

Ecological Impacts and Risks

15

(22)

Introduction

15

(2)

The limits debate

17

(10)

The global dimension

27

(3)

Improving efficiency: the factor X debate

30

(4)

Uncertainty

34

(2)

Conclusion

36

(1)

The Employment Problem

37

(36)

Introduction

37

(5)

Origins of the capitalist ideologies of work

42

(5)

Motivating the anomic worker

47

(5)

The contested growth of paid employment

52

(6)

The nature and productivity of current employment

58

(4)

Research purporting to show that employment is `good' for you and unemployment `bad'

62

(7)

Conclusion

69

(4)

Consumption

73

(18)

What relation is there between consumption and welfare?

73

(7)

The forces underlying consumerism

80

(11)

Orthodox and Green Solutions

91

(24)

Orthodox approaches: solutions to what problems?

92

(7)

Green solutions

99

(13)

The argument so far: delinking welfare from economic activity

112

(3)

Part II Towards a Solution Based on Welfare

115

(98)

Moving from Growth to Welfare - a Conceptual Framework

117

(25)

Background

117

(1)

Approaches: a thousand flowers bloom

118

(2)

Socio-economic reporting systems

120

(15)

Implications for government policies and expenditures

135

(6)

Conclusion

141

(1)

Orders of Magnitude of Change

142

(26)

Introduction

142

(1)

Reducing consumption in rich countries: some general principles

143

(1)

Reductions in consumption not contributing to welfare

144

(10)

Reducing consumption in the UK: some illustrative figures

154

(2)

Starting from the present situation and counting down

156

(2)

The experience of other countries

158

(2)

Conclusion

160

(1)

Annex: calculation details

161

(7)

A First Selected Set of Social Performance/Progress Indicators

168

(23)

Monitoring welfare

169

(4)

Monitoring the marginalised and more sensitive social surveys

173

(3)

Developing specific indicators

176

(6)

Implementation

182

(6)

Annex: radicalising survey methodology

188

(3)

The Fourth Way in Practice: What Can be Done?

191

(22)

What needs to be done?

191

(4)

Stretching existing institutions: (pale) green capitalism

195

(6)

Welfare against profit

201

(5)

Consumers of the world relax!

206

(7)

Notes

213

(8)

References and Select Bibliography

221

(16)

Subject Index

237

(19)

Name Index

256

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