Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
A new narrative emerging 7
Part I Our Affair With Growth
1 Desired - celebrating growth 51
2 Fuelled - resource-based growth 57
3 Borrowed - a growth of liabilities 63
4 Lost - the great divergence 89
5 Wasted - system waste as a new resource 109
6 Broken - the unfulfilled sustainability dream 125
Part II Towards a Growth Model Fit for the Twenty-First Century
7 Three pillars of a better growth model 135
8 The 'net-positive' norm - accretive, productive, healthy 155
9 A European case example - positive for economy and environment 165
Part III The Big Disruption - Taming the Beast
10 Disruptive trends - the world at a turning point 177
11 Digitizing the physical world - the next revolution 187
12 Disrupted - for better or for worse? 199
13 Turning innovation into a force of good 207
Part IV The Great Reconciliation - How to Cross the Chasm
14 Ten years that matter - the case for change 227
15 An intuition reset - structure of a good revolution 237
16 Shaping, not gaping - government's new role 247
17 More is different - the unstoppable crowd 261
18 The new capitalist - the rise of long-term entrepreneurism 265
19 The great reconciliation - entering the upward spiral 273
20 The good singularity - not wasting our best chance 281
Part V Appendices
Appendix 1 Five perspectives on the necessary transition 287
Appendix 2 Seeds of a better economy - visiting the frontline 311
Notes 323
Bibliography 339
Index 377