Distinguished fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project Gus Speth creates a manifesto on post-growth prosperity in this excerpt adapted from his book America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy and published on CommonDreams. Speth discusses growth, the current system’s downfalls, and possible alternative policies that would slow GDP growth in order to help the environment while also improving overall society. He focuses on the need for work-time reduction while maintaining a certain level of growth in necessary areas of the economy.
