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Art contribution • 2012

Economix

Subtitle: How your economy does work (and doesn't work) in words and pictures What is Economix? economixcomix.com: Economix is a graphic novel by Michael Goodwin, illustrated by Dan E. Burr, that explains the economy. More than a cartoon version of a textbook, Economix gives the whole story of the economy, from the rise of capitalism to Occupy Wall Street. Economix is published by Abrams Comic...

Misc • 2012

Hur vi kan leva hållbart 2030

By: Christer Sanne

Naturvårdsverket: Kan vi fortsätta att leva ett modernt och bekvämt liv i Sverige och ändå ”rädda världen”? Den här rapporten går från ord till siffror för att ge en konkret och sammanhållen bild av en hållbar livsstil år 2030. Den diskuterar också hur andra viktiga frågor i politiken påverkar miljö- och naturresursfrågorna och hur de kan hanteras för att nå en hållbar utveckling. Genom att...

Report • 2012

Voices of Transition

By: Nils Aguilar

voicesoftransition.org: This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition movement in the UK, where communities are already moving towards local resilience. The pioneers of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Is Socially - Just Degrowth Compatible with Capitalism?

By: Karen Bell

Abstract: The degrowth movement challenges the paradigm of economic growth, and promotes a dual agenda of ecological sustainability and social justice. However, critics argue that, within a capitalist system, degrowth will ultimately undermine social justice by increasing poverty and inequality, as businesses collapse and jobs are lost. The recent economic recession in the wealthier...

Scientific paper • 2012

De-growth and re-growth: The Story of New England Food

By: John E. Carroll

Abstract: De-Growth equals Re-Growth. This is inevitably a fact. There cannot be one without the other. Examples abound, but the one upon which I will focus here is the experience of New England food and farming as a case example of re‐growth following de-growth, fulfilling the same role, the same societal need, but in a very different.

Scientific paper • 2012

The Parallel World: Substituting Physical Capi tal with Social Capital and Human Capital?

By: Chiung Ting CHANG

growth model, human capital, low income country, social capital

Scientific paper • 2012

Página 1 de 19 LA CIUDAD: ENTRE EL ESPEJISMO DEL CRECIMIENTO Y LA UTOPIA DEL METABOLISMO SOSTENIBLE, CASO BOGOT Á D.C.

By: Cristian Julián Díaz Álvarez

ciudad, crecimiento económico, sostenibilidad, metabolismo urbano

Scientific paper • 2012

Overpopulation and the Vicious Circle Principle

By: Craig Dilworth

Abstract: In my book "Too Smart for Our Own Good", I present an ecological theory intended to explain human evolution and development, and I apply that theory to all major aspects of our actual evolution and development over the past seven million years. In this paper, I shall summarize the treatment that overpopulation in particular receives in Too Smart.

Scientific paper • 2012

Introducing the rule of ecological law

By: Geoffrey Garver, Geoffrey Garver

From the text: Systemic ecological boundaries, buffered with means to allow the flourishing of life and not merely its survival, are the boundaries that matter most in this critical era. They can serve as the base of a structure of ecological law that must be respected and enforced to fend off catastrophe and enhance the capacity for life to flourish. I argue that the looming prospect of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth, Black America, and Restorative Justice

By: Brian Gilmore

Introduction: In Serge Latouche’s 2009 book, FAREWELL TO GROWTH, he specifically mentions the injustice of racial bias (and bias in general) in the world today. It is important because it is discussed within the context of economic growth. Latouche writes that “we resist, and must resist all forms of racism and discrimination (skin color, sex, religion, ethnicity...),” biases he insist are “all...

Scientific paper • 2012

AGRICULTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ULTRASOCIALITY

By: John Gowdy, Lisi Krall

Abstract: The adoption of agriculture was perhaps the most momentous transformation in human history. It set into motion forces that changed our species from being a relatively minor player into one that dominated local ecosystems and is now changing the biophysical characteristics of the entire planet. We argue that this transformation can be understood as a leap to ultrasociality. After...

Scientific paper • 2012

The True-Cost Economy: Toward a Model To End Cheater Economics, Ensure Fair Play, & Long-Term Survival

By: Randy Hayes, Foundation Earth

Abstract: Over the next century, communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather with occasional extreme weather events (ecological spasms) resulting in economic spasms and occasional regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasm collapses occurs. Far from being prepared, most opinion leaders and power brokers are not...

Scientific paper • 2012

Deux propositions de decroissance visant diminuer les disparités sociales au Brés

By: João Luís Homem de Carvalho

Abstract: Ce travail n'a pas l'intention d'épuiser le thème, juste pour montrer et d'expliquer pourquoi le Brésil, même en étant la sixième puissance économique dans le monde, a d'énormes disparités sociales. Parmi les diverses raisons tiens à souligner deux: la première est la politique de subventionnement de l'industrie de l'automobile et la seconde est la politique qui soutient le modèle...

Scientific paper • 2012

Another Governance: Kicking Democracy’s Growth Habit

By: Bruce Jennings

From the text: So conceived, governance is a process that involves many institutions — in the economy, civil society, and religious and cultural organizations — in addition to the government legally defined. Governance is even more ubiquitous than the entity, also not identical with the government, called the state. Questions about the form that governance in a degrowth society should take are...

Scientific paper • 2012

Heterodox Political Economy and the Degrowth Perspective

By: Kent Klitgaard

From the introduction: . . . Ecological and degrowth economists need to take seriously the problems of unemployment and poverty if anyone is to listen to us. In an era where the primary demand of the electorate is “jobs, jobs, jobs,” ignoring the need of people to find steady and meaningful work will make those concerned only with living within nature’s limits appear callous just at the time...

Scientific paper • 2012

L’empreinte écologique et l’Indice de progrès véritable: Des pistes pour l’avenir du Québec

By: Harvey L. Mead

Introduction: Le discours actuel n’est que pour les façons d’assurer une sortie de crise, d’une reprise de l’activité économique, de sa croissance. Il n’y a presque aucune attention portée sur la possibilité qu’un changement de paradigme s’impose devant les faiblesses du paradigme actuel montrées par la crise financière et ensuite économique (sans parler de la crise écologique). L’ampleur de la...

Scientific paper • 2012

Compassionate Communities: A Breeding Ground for Innovation

By: Judy Nagy

Abstract: At the root of it all, what does the degrowth movement ask of us – the individual? In simple terms, it asks us to care about each other as living, breathing beings and to care about our habitat, Planet Earth, and then to act accordingly. It asks us to shift from a mentality of acquiring to one of sharing, or from selfishness to compassion, or even from worrying about one’s self to...

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth Equals Regrowth: A Discussion of Eduardo Galeano's W ork

By: Anitra Nelson

degrowth, Eduardo Galeano, exchange value, non-market socialism, use value

Scientific paper • 2012

The Macroeconomics of De-growth. Can a De-growth Strategy be Stable?

By: Dina Padalkina

De-growth, Sustainability, Consumption and Production patterns, Ecological and Environmental economics, Post-Keynesian economics, Kaleckian Model, Taxation and Distribution, Policy, Regulation

Scientific paper • 2012

Global Governance and the World Economy: Impressions from Complex Adaptive Systems Analysis

By: Stephen J. Purdey

Abstract: Two features of the modern world economy have become abundantly clear. First, its component parts are now so densely interconnected that disturbances reverberate quickly, sometimes catastrophically, right around the globe. And second, the ever-bigger world economy is now bumping up against, and in some cases breaching constraints imposed by the finitude of the planetary bio-geosphere....