Dirk Philipsen is a professor of economic history and a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, North Carolina. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World, and What To Do About It (Princeton University Press, May 2015).
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The Growth Delusion
Rather than ask how to achieve more, it is time to ask, “More of what? And why?”
March 31, 2015
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