{"id":442,"date":"2011-02-01T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2011\/02\/the-worlds-first-post-growth-economy.html"},"modified":"2011-02-01T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T18:55:15","slug":"the-worlds-first-post-growth-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/02\/the-worlds-first-post-growth-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s First Post-Growth Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330148c83bab60970c-pi\"><img class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330148c83bab60970c\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Japan economic growth\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330148c83bab60970c-320wi\" alt=\"Japan economic growth\" \/><\/a> &#8220;One of the problems with the post-growth movement is that it can  appear theoretical. No matter how confident we might be, we lack proof that a  post-growth economy is possible. Or do we? Perhaps the world already has a post-growth society, albeit  an unintentional one. Here\u2019s what Japan\u2019s GDP has been up to for the  last twenty years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as economists are concerned, this is a tragedy and a disaster. And yet, the lights are still on, everything still works. Literacy is  high, and crime is low. Life expectancy is better than almost anywhere  on earth \u2013 82 years to the US\u2019 78. The trains run to the second.  Unemployment is only 5%, and levels of inequality are enviable. So maybe Japan isn\u2019t a failure. Maybe it\u2019s just ahead of its time \u2013 not \u2018stagnating\u2019, but settling into the plateau of \u2018enough\u2019.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/makewealthhistory.org\/2011\/02\/01\/japan-the-worlds-first-post-growth-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of the problems with the post-growth movement is that it can appear theoretical. No matter how confident we might be, we lack proof that a post-growth economy is possible. Or do we? Perhaps the world already has a post-growth society, albeit an unintentional one. Here\u2019s what Japan\u2019s GDP has been up to for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}