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Growth is a dominant economic driver accounting for the wealth of nations and organizations alike. However, in the face of environmental pressures, widespread social and economic imbalance, and the reigning climate of uncertainty we are experiencing today, there is now a need for a viable interpretation of what growth really means. In this book, the author redefines the limits to economic growth and tackles the issues involved in three parts, in order to study a variety of international issues, including the world economic system, climate change and environmental degradation.

Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword: Why We Should Grow Beyond Economic Growth -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- PART 1: A Present-Day Imperative -- 1 A Present-Day Imperative To Think or Not To Think -- 1.1. Where are we by now? -- 1.2. Situating this book -- 1.3. From local to global to complex -- 1.4. In search for growth -- 1.5. On futures and their values -- 2 Situating Growth in Time-Space -- 2.1. Two six thousand day lapses -- 2.2. Complexity to the fore -- 2.3. The message is not the content -- 2.4. On the approach taken by this book -- 3 Dominant Thinkings of the Past Century -- 3.1. Economic dynamics evolved -- 3.2. Change and no change: the art of governance -- 3.3. What's in a "dominant design"? -- 3.4. Why are dominant designs important to consider? -- 3.5. Operating dominant designs on an example -- 3.6. Categorizing four general fixations found in the economic world -- 3.7. On the remarkable fixation on competition -- 3.8. Implementing the defixation process -- 4 The Historical Contribution of System Dynamics -- 4.1. The pioneering work at MIT -- 4.2. The historical quest for cracking the "world probl�ematique" -- 4.3. The historical outlet with the Club of Rome -- 4.4. On complex systems and the legacy relevance of system dynamics -- 4.5. On the psychology of "not wanting to know" -- 4.6. Some prevalent differences and similarities with the seventies -- 4.7. Getting away from system dynamics from now? -- 4.8. The position taken in this book -- PART 2: A Methodology for Tackling Growth Problematics -- 5 In Search for New Approaches Fit-For-Purpose -- 5.1. A GDP comfort zone -- 5.2. In search for growth -- 5.3. How to correctly model the situation problematics -- 5.4. Leaving duality -- 5.5. The ever-growing complexity -- 5.6. Searching for a representation framework beyond set theory.

5.7. Shifting from problem-based to design-based methods -- 6 Angling the Core Subject Appropriately -- 6.1. Principle 1: find the "lowest lever point" -- 6.2. Principle 2: divide to multiply -- 6.3. Principle 3: going from the "two" to the "three" -- 6.4. Practical considerations -- 6.5. Case: reflections from a Haitian context -- 6.6. An asset base for growth -- 6.7. The exponential movement -- 6.8. The economic equation -- 6.9. Relationship with SDGs -- 7 Cracking Open a Growth Concept -- 7.1. On the presence of dominant designs -- 7.2. Some background knowledge relevant to GDP -- 7.3. Discussing GDP features -- 7.4. Evidencing past GDP's dominant designs and breaking axes -- 7.5. A framed template for "new growth" -- 7.6. Charting GDP's dominant designs and breaking axes -- 7.7. Blueprinting new growth concepts -- 7.8. Expanding on growth-related concepts -- 8 Opening Up New Growth Axes -- 8.1. Energy is everything -- efficiency best manages it -- 8.2. Option one: "electrifying GDP" -- 8.3. Option two: "efficiency GDP" -- 8.4. A side note -- 8.5. On distribution and its criteria -- PART 3: Going Beyond the Notion of GDP -- 9 New Growth Operational Formulations with Examples -- 9.1. A quick return to system dynamics -- 9.2. How to balance the disequilibria by injecting a conduct way -- 9.3. Why isn't a circular economy enough? -- 10 Discussing Work, Labor and Money -- 10.1. Is work still on demand? -- 10.2. Cultural factors underpinning work -- 10.3. Work: background knowledge -- 10.4. Fixations on work -- 10.5. Work: dominant designs and breaking axes -- 10.6. Blueprint concepts for extending the notion of work -- 10.7. Expanding the notion of work towards a cooperation principle -- 10.8. The fixations on money -- 11 Case Study: Growth Through Cooperation, Work, Time and Space -- 11.1. Evolving work in co-working settings.

11.2. Why co-working as a subject matter? -- 11.3. Generations of co-working spaces don't act on the same premises -- 11.4. Departing from some current views opens up future co-working spaces -- 11.5. Using C-K theory for thinking future co-working spaces -- 11.6. Giving thought to today's 1.0 co-working spaces -- 11.7. Mechanisms for expanding the original concept -- 11.8. What may be a language for "working together?" -- 11.9. Founding experiments -- the protocol and schedule -- 11.10. Concluding with some considerations for the future -- 11.11. Acknowledgments -- 11.12. Further reading -- 12 A Society's New Clothes -- 12.1. The main messages from this book -- 12.2. Enhancing dynamics -- 12.3. Consciousness as the molding factor? -- PART 4: Appendices -- Appendix 1: A Short Primer on C-K Theory -- A1.1. Why use a theory? -- A1.2. Beginning with a little formal introduction -- A1.3. Proposing a little, more didactic, familiarization -- A1.4. Acquainting with the mathematical foundations of C-K theory -- A1.5. Introducing the DKCP implementation framework -- A1.6. Further reading -- Appendix 2: Some Chronological Reports to The Club of Rome Commented -- Bibliography -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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