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post-growth economics

”We shouldn’t be afraid of involving businesses”: Doughnut Economics in Brussels

January 26, 2023 by Barbara Trachte

Major European cities such as Amsterdam, Geneva and Brussels, have adopted the doughnut model to guide their green transitions.

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John Thackara on Designing for Life

January 5, 2023 by David Bollier

John Thackara is one of the brilliant irregulars exploring how humankind can make the transition to a climate-friendly, relocalized, post-capitalist world.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Act: Inspiration featured, Economy, Economy featured, Environment, Society Tags building a resilient economy, new economy, post-growth economics Leave a comment

Putting Post Growth Theory Into Practice

December 23, 2021 by Post-Growth Institute Staff

If someone wants to build a post growth business, we have to be able to say: “Here’s the handbook, here’s the business templates, and here’s the supportive community. Now go forth!”

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How to achieve full decolonization

October 20, 2021 by Jason Hickel

Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which prevents them from meeting their people’s real needs. MMT offers a way out.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Environment, Society Tags decolonization, degrowth perspectives, internationalist development, modern monetary theory, post-growth economics Leave a comment

Beyond the Growth Imperative

August 5, 2021 by Olaf Bruns

Tim Jackson’s new book, Post Growth: Life after Capitalism (Polity Press, 2021), follows his ground-breaking Prosperity without Growth (2009, updated in 2017). Whilst the previous work reflected, partly, the austerity-driven answers to the Great Recession, Post Growth falls into a different world.

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Tim Jackson and the Quest for Post Growth

August 3, 2021 by David Bollier

Ecological economist Tim Jackson is one of the few serious scholars trying to imagine what a post-growth world might look like.

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Reclaiming hope from the dismal science

June 23, 2021 by Bart Hawkins Kreps

“Empowering and elegiac” might seem a strange description of a book on economics. Yet the prominent author and former economics minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, chooses that phrase of praise for the new book Post Growth, by Tim Jackson.

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Post Growth: Excerpt

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 by Tim Jackson

Our prevailing vision of social progress is fatally dependent on a false promise: that there will always be more and more for everyone.

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From What If to What Next: Kate Soper and Tim Jackson

May 17, 2021 by Rob Hopkins

Might this be the time to forever do away with the idea that the only way to measure our progress, cultural, social, spiritual, economic, is purely by how much bigger our economy is than it was last year?

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Post-Growth Futures Are Already Here

February 22, 2021 by Donnie Maclurcan

When we talk about a system beyond economic growth, we don’t have to refer to an abstract future. There are myriad existing examples of projects, mindsets, and approaches beyond economic growth — and not all fit easily into the ‘sustainability’ box.

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There must be some way out of here: policies, politics and possibilities in the pancrisis.

November 10, 2020 by Mark H. Burton

Returning to the All Party Group on the Limits to Growth, and practical politics, the task is to promote enactable short-range policies that take us towards a post-growth future. These need to be transformational in effect…

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Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

April 10, 2020 by Richard Heinberg

Navigating the end of growth will require courage, new thinking, flexibility, and a willingness to make mistakes. It’s understandable why, during “normal” times, people want to stick with what’s familiar. But we’re no longer in normal times.

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