Beyond Economic Growth Workshop: Practice, Theory, and Potential

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Mainstream development economics holds that nations must steadily increase their GDP in order to secure human well-being within their borders, particularly in light of population growth. But many theorists, policy scientists, legal scholars, and activists insist that this assumption is flawed. For not only have scholars and activists long questioned the distributional equity of infinite GDP-growth, without more. But many now claim that the Earth itself…