Book Review: "The End of Growth", By Richard Heinberg, Reviewed By Frank Kaminski

Book Review: "The End of Growth", By Richard Heinberg, Reviewed By Frank Kaminski

While “experts” assure us that the economy is slowly emerging from recession, a growing camp of well-informed dissenters thinks not. The scant evidence of recovery, insists this group, is not an anomaly but the sign of a profound sea change. The End of Growth, one book unequivocally calls it, next to a cover image of a burst balloon and a pin. The book’s author, Richard Heinberg, makes his case by far the most eloquently and comprehensively—and though it may be a decidedly unwelcome one for those now struggling, that doesn’t detract from its validity.

Limits To Debt, By Richard Heinberg

Limits To Debt, By Richard Heinberg

ORIGINAL ARTICLE This article is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Richard’s new book (working title ‘The End of Growth’), which is set for publication in July 2011. Given the urgency and fragility of the global economic crisis, we will be serializing the...