{"id":32058,"date":"2026-04-11T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekid.se\/?p=32058"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:06:06","slug":"growth-a-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/?p=32058","title":{"rendered":"Growth &#8211; A Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Susskind \u00e4r professor i ekonomi vid Kings collage London och Oxford universitet och har tidigare skrivit flera b\u00f6cker och varit r\u00e5dgivare \u00e5t den brittiska regeringen. H\u00e4r ger han sig i kast med att f\u00f6rs\u00f6ka f\u00f6rklara tillv\u00e4xt och dess historia. Det \u00e4r en intressant och v\u00e4l argumenterad bakgrund till hur tillv\u00e4xt har blivit ett av de mest centrala begreppen i modernt samh\u00e4llsliv. En tidig mening i boken \u00e4r &#8221;There is a sense in which the same phenomenon now applies to society as a whole; growth has an irresistible promise and an unacceptable price, it is miraculous and devastating, we need a lot more and vastly less. The challenge we face is not only new but disorientating&#8221;. Det var framf\u00f6r allt f\u00f6r hans resonemang om tillv\u00e4xtens baksida som gjorde att jag k\u00f6pte boken och som en bakgrundsbeskrivning \u00e4r den lovande. Men n\u00e4r han g\u00e5r in p\u00e5 l\u00f6sningarna i slutet av boken ramlar allt ihop och blir tomt. Klart att vi m\u00e5ste hantera &#8221;tradeoffs&#8221; men han tror att de inte \u00e4r st\u00f6rre \u00e4n tillv\u00e4xten som i hans v\u00e4rld beh\u00f6ver bli mycket st\u00f6rre och samtidigt mycket mindre. Han tror att politiken ska l\u00f6sa avv\u00e4gningarna men ger inga f\u00f6rslag p\u00e5 hur det ekonomiska systemet beh\u00f6ver f\u00f6r\u00e4ndras f\u00f6r att klara avv\u00e4gningarna. En lovande inledning blev en stor besvikelse i slutet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2291F7BE-4036-4C08-9F64-6B214B7B752E-443x590.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32059\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2291F7BE-4036-4C08-9F64-6B214B7B752E-443x590.jpeg 443w, http:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2291F7BE-4036-4C08-9F64-6B214B7B752E-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2291F7BE-4036-4C08-9F64-6B214B7B752E-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2291F7BE-4036-4C08-9F64-6B214B7B752E-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/ekid.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2291F7BE-4036-4C08-9F64-6B214B7B752E-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Susskind \u00e4r professor i ekonomi vid Kings collage London och Oxford universitet och har tidigare skrivit flera b\u00f6cker och [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bocker-jag-last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32060,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions\/32060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekid.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}