Jeff Rubin's new book is a continuation of 'Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller'. His key idea is that all sources of energy are getting more expensive due to growing demand and depletion of ease to access, ease to extract oil, natural gas and coal thus making economic growth impossible. He lists a few bright sides of that, including the return of manufacturing jobs, but avoids the darker one
The book is a good read, and I highly recommend it