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Goodbye ‘Shop Til You Drop’ Mentality: Renegade Band of Economists Call for ‘Degrowth’ Economy

From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/153553/goodbye_%27shop_til_you_drop%27_mentality%3A_renegade_band_of_economists_call_for_%27degrowth%27_economy/ The road to prosperity and happiness doesn’t lead to the shopping mall, as most economists would have you believe. By Christine MacDonald December 23, 2011   In this country, shopping is not just a national pastime. Consumer spending, which makes up about 70 percent of the economy, is a sort of patriotic [...]Image may be NSFW.
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