Self-Devouring GrowthUnder capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well being. In Self Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how