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A powerful vision for reimagining prosperity for the twenty-first century.
Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century sets out a new vision for prosperity in the twenty-first century and how it can be achieved for all. The volume challenges orthodox understandings of economic models but goes beyond contemporary debates to show how social innovation drives economic value. Drawing on substantive research in the UK, Lebanon, and Kenya, it develops new concepts, frameworks, models, and metrics for prosperity across a wide range of contexts, emphasizing commonalities and differences. Departing from general propositions about post-growth to delineate pathways to prosperity, the volume emphasizes that visions of the good life are diverse and require empirical work co-designed with local communities and stakeholders to drive change. It will be essential reading for policymakers who are stuck, local government officers who need new tools, activists who wonder what is next, academics in need of refreshment, and students and people of all ages who want a way forward.
Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century sets out a new vision for prosperity in the twenty-first century and how it can be achieved for all. The volume challenges orthodox understandings of economic models but goes beyond contemporary debates to show how social innovation drives economic value. Drawing on substantive research in the UK, Lebanon, and Kenya, it develops new concepts, frameworks, models, and metrics for prosperity across a wide range of contexts, emphasizing commonalities and differences. Departing from general propositions about post-growth to delineate pathways to prosperity, the volume emphasizes that visions of the good life are diverse and require empirical work co-designed with local communities and stakeholders to drive change. It will be essential reading for policymakers who are stuck, local government officers who need new tools, activists who wonder what is next, academics in need of refreshment, and students and people of all ages who want a way forward.
250 pages | 33 color illustrations | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2023
Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice
Economics and Business: Economics--International and Comparative
Political Science: Public Policy
Table of Contents
List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: prosperity in the twenty-first century Henrietta. L. Moore 1 What is prosperity? Henrietta L. Moore and Nikolay Mintchev 2 The discourse of prosperity: metaphors, transformations and pathways Nikolay Mintchev and Henrietta L. Moore 3 Local meanings and ‘sticky’ measures of the good life: redefining prosperity with and for communities in east London Henrietta L. Moore and Saffron Woodcraft 4 Rethinking livelihood security: why addressing the democratic deficit in economic policy making opens up new pathways to prosperity Saffron Woodcraft, Hannah Collins and Iona McArdle 5 Building co-designed infrastructures in Lebanon’s spaces of displacement Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj, Nikolay Mintchev, Henrietta L. Moore and Andrea Rigon 6 Decentralised renewable energy: A pathway to prosperity for Lebanon? Henrietta L. Moore, Hannah Collins and Diala Makki 7 Prosperity in crisis in the longue durée in Africa Henrietta L. Moore 8 Emergent prosperity, time and design: Farming in Marakwet, Kenya Matthew Davies, Samuel Lunn- Rockliffe, Timothy Kipkeu Kiprutto and Wilson Kipkore Epilogue Henrietta L. Moore Index