The 8th of December, the End of the Month, and the End of the World
By Anya Verkamp, Riccardo Mastini, Uneven Earth
Saturday 8 December 2018 is a day that will likely go down in history for many social movements. The streets of many European cities were filled with demonstrations against the most pressing social issues of our time: growing inequality, useless mega infrastructural projects, and climate breakdown.
Beyond the Choke Hold of Growth: Post-Growth or Radical Degrowth?
By Riccardo Mastini, Tim Jackson, Giorgos Kallis, Green European Journal
In part two of Riccardo Mastini’s interview with Giorgos Kallis and Tim Jackson at the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament, they trace the history that led to growth being prized above all else and discuss how to conceptualise a future beyond growth.
The Politics of Post-Growth
By Riccardo Mastini, Tim Jackson, Giorgos Kallis, Green European Journal
In the first part of a two-part interview, Riccardo Mastini discusses the possibilities and challenges for imagining a world beyond growth with two key post-growth thinkers at the conference.
Degrowth as a Concrete Utopia
By Riccardo Mastini, openDemocracy
The emergence of interest in degrowth can be traced back to the 1st International Degrowth Conference organized in Paris in 2008. At this conference, degrowth was defined as a “voluntary transition towards a just, participatory, and ecologically sustainable society,” so challenging the dogma of economic growth.
A Sufficiency Vision for an Ecologically Constrained World
By Riccardo Mastini, Green European Journal
Owing to the limits of eco-efficiency and the need to liberate environmental space for the global poor,, new policy instruments should be designed to bring about ecological fair sharing between countries and a new economy based on the concept of sufficiency.
Work in a World without Growth
By Riccardo Mastini, Green European Journal
Adopting an economic policy proposal known as the job guarantee could ensure full employment while our society transitions towards an economy that no longer grows. All this, without sacrificing the goods and services needed for just and sustainable prosperity.
Degrowth: the Case for a New Economic Paradigm
By Riccardo Mastini, openDemocracy
Degrowth means primarily the abolition of economic growth as a social objective. This implies a new direction for society, one in which societies will use fewer natural resources and will organize and live differently from today. Ecological economists define degrowth as an equitable downscaling of production and consumption that will reduce societies’ throughput of energy and raw materials.