When Growth Expands Faster Than Real Value

Companies promise growth, governments report it and markets reward it. But what if expansion comes from extraction, leverage and financial engineering rather than durable creation?

Saied challenges readers to distinguish scale from substance and valuation from productive capacity. The book asks for a better definition of progress—one connected to useful products, infrastructure, livelihoods and institutions capable of surviving shocks.

For readers interested in capitalism, economics, corporate strategy, investing and inequality, Manufactured Growth: How Modern Capitalism Scaled Without Building offers an inviting entry point into its subject. It is written to spark curiosity, conversation and a desire to see the familiar from a different angle.