Jon Cloke currently works as a Research Associate, National Network Manager for the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network (www.lcedn.com) and as Research Associate for ENR-Demos (https://www.enrdemosproject.net/). Since completing his PhD he has been teaching and doing research in a variety of different research areas including alternative energy, corruption, corporate social responsibility and social inclusion in higher education. He is also interested in global economic crises, financialization and the evolution of capital originated in examining the political economy of the discourse on corruption and from examining the wider relational spaces of corruption within the global financial services sector as they relate to ‘normal’, as opposed to ‘aberrant’ practices in the global development dispositif.
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The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
If a theoretical economy relies on the exchange of intended things, a profitable economy relies on the waste produced by the production, distribution and sale of those things.
September 22, 2025
