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No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough. The Economics of Abundance is a balanced book in which Wolfgang Hoeschele challenges why this is so. He claims that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured scarcity created by 'scarcity-generating institutions', and these institutions manipulate both demand and supply of commodities. Therefore demand consistently exceeds supply, and profits and economic growth can continue - at the cost of individual freedom, social equity, and ecological sustainability. The fact that continual increases...

This main thesis of this book is that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured scarcity created by 'scarcity-generating institutions'. The text argues that, by analyzing how scarcity-generating institutions work and then reforming or dismantling them, we can enhance individual freedom.