Review: The Great Transition – The End of Growth?
We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works.
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Review: Degrowth – A Vocabulary for a New Era
Before anything else it seems important to say that there are lots of chapters in this book that I think are quite excellent as short pithy descriptions of the key concepts of degrowth.
Public Health’s Response to Decline: Loyalty to the 1%
American institutions are in decline and rife with corruption brought on by a combination of hitting the limits to growth while under the control of neoliberal capitalism.
Review: Degrowth, The Book
In industrialized societies, where so many people regard economic growth as the essence of human progress, the idea of deliberately rejecting growth is seen as insane.
Learning from Icarus
What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient?
A brief history of contemporary “consumerism” and anti-consumerism
History books usually study social movements of the second half of the nineteenth century from the point of view of the split between anarchists and Marxists.
How to Shrink the Economy without Crashing It: A Ten-Point Plan
If there is a theoretical pathway to a significantly smaller economy we should try to identify it.
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all!
[I]nternational media, governments and the United Nations enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled “Better Growth, Better Climate” and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in hand….
Limits to Growth: Where We Are and What to Do About It
In this talk, Nate Hagens synthesizes the current landscape of global energy, environment and financial risks while offering suggestions on what to do as a hominid living on a full planet.
Schools of Thought on Degrowth
The economy of the future is described by different groups with different words in different languages and they do not always exactly translate into an identical idea.
Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy
What does genuine economic progress look like?
“No Ordinary Conference”: The Fourth Degrowth Conference in Leipzig
Degrowth is a movement built around a critique of the growth economy, which draws strongly on the limits to growth (cf also The Growth Illusion of Richard Douthwaite) and strong sustainability debates of the 1970s.
