Degrowth, American style: No impact man and bourgeois primitivism

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-118

  Correia, David ^a  

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CAPITALISM; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC THEORY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; POLITICAL ECONOMY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84857200705     PISSN: 10455752     EISSN: 15483290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2011.648847     Document Type: Article

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