bwaber@bookwyrm.social reviewed Growth by Daniel Susskind
A Timely, Research-Driven Book on the Nature of Economic Growth
5 stars
Susskind delivers a rigorous accounting of the historical nature of economic growth, why the astonishing progress of the last few centuries is due nearly entirely to new ideas and not resource use, and why the degrowth movement is so incredibly wrong and destructive. Importantly, this book also reviews why myopically targeting metrics such as GDP are also extremely negative for society, in addition to the very subjective nature of what is included in that metric. While there is some AI doomerism that creeps in here, if you skip those small sections what remains is an essential work of scholarship. Highly recommend