Timothée Parrique

Timothée Parrique holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2020), his dissertation explores the economic implications of the ideas of degrowth and post-growth. Tim is also the lead author of “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).

Is green growth happening?

By Timothée Parrique, Uneven Earth

So, is green growth happening? The answer is no, not really. As of today, economic growth is still a vector of resource use and environmental degradation.

May 3, 2021

Pausing the game of growth

By Timothée Parrique, Degrowth.de

Here is a proposition: think of the economy as made of Lego. All rules to organise extraction, production, allocation, consumption, and disposal are social institutions. I

October 27, 2020

Decoupling

By Timothée Parrique, Uneven Earth

Is economic growth compatible with ecological sustainability? To answer this question, we need to talk about decoupling. The term ‘decoupling’ refers to the possibility of detaching economic growth from environmental pressures.

June 30, 2020

Decoupling is Dead! Long Live Degrowth!

By Timothée Parrique, Degrowth.de

The validity of the green growth discourse relies on the assumption of an absolute, permanent, global, large and fast enough decoupling of Gross Domestic Product from all critical environmental pressures. Problem is: there is no empirical evidence for such a decoupling having ever happened.

July 26, 2019