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Scientific paper • 2016

How to stop monetary growth pressure?

Generally, there is not enough awareness of the central role the monetary system plays with regard to sustainability. One of the main reasons is that for several decades economics has been dominated by a monetary theory that gives a false description of the monetary system and the role of money in the economy. Assuming that money on the macroeconomic level is basically neutral, traditional...

Presentation • 2016

SAT_10h // Polanyi historical lessons

By: Gareth Dale, Mladen Domazet, Vincent Liegey, Alexandra Köves

Keynote speech by Gareth Dale and following panel discussion by Mladen Domazet, Vincent Liegey and Alexandra Köves at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

Presentation • 2016

Capitalism and (de)growth

By: Susan Paulson, Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, György Pataki

The discussion of the plenary "Capitalism and (de)growth" is outlining the key degrowth challenges, such as the internal contradictions of capitalism, exiting growth and comparing the transition experiences and potentials in the parts of the world where they originate from. Speaker: Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, Susan Paulson Facilitator: György Pataki 31/08/2016, Degrowth Conference...

Misc • 2015

Growth Based Economies or Collapse

By: Sam Bliss

Published with a Creative Commons license. Sam Bliss, a graduate of ecological economics from the USA, explains with the help of orange juice what is going wrong in today's economy. In an encouraging way he displays different possible solutions for the problems he describes and thereby names essential parts of degrowth.

Presentation • 2015

Konturen einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft. Das Jenaer Projekt

By: Hartmut Rosa

postwachstumsoekonomie.de: Moderne Gesellschaften sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie sich nur dynamisch zu stabilisieren vermögen. Das bedeutet, dass sie systematisch auf Wachstum, Beschleunigung und Innovationsverdichtung angewiesen sind, um sich in ihrer institutionellen Struktur zu erhalten und zu reproduzieren. Das Jenaer Projekt sucht daher nach den Möglichkeiten und Konturen einer...

Scientific paper • 2015

Wirtschaftsjournalismus und Wachstumsparadigma

By: Ferdin, Knauß

Working Paper des Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.

Scientific paper • 2015

Transformative Potenziale von Unternehmen, die nicht wachsen wollen

By: Jana Gebauer, Heike Mewes

Herausgeber_innen: Sozial-ökologischer Wandel erfordert eine radikale Veränderung unserer Märkte durch nachhaltige Angebote. Die Annahme, dass hierfür die guten Unternehmen bloß wachsen müssten, greift aber zu kurz. Postwachstumsunternehmen verändern Märkte und Wirtschaftsweisen auch, wenn sie selbst nicht wachsen wollen.

Scientific paper • 2014

Convivial Conservation: Degrowth and the quest of overcoming Capitalist Conservation

By: Bram Büscher

Abstract: A growing body of literature is exploring the intertwined histories and current dynamics of global capitalism and global conservation. One of the major arguments in this literature is that the development of global conservation is directly related to the development of global capitalism, and thus to capitalism’s sine-qua-non, economic growth. This paper reviews these intertwined...

Scientific paper • 2014

Business, postgrowth – theses and recommendations

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Jana Gebauer

Abstract: Businesses are not only driving contemporary ideas of progressive economic growth. They are also driven by them as they often perceive an economic and societal pressure to permanently grow in size. At the same time, many companies face stagnant or shrinking markets, resource scarcities, crises or far-reaching demographic trends. Academic and political debates on limits to growth and...

Scientific paper • 2014

LOW GROW for Germany: modelling the macroeconomics of degrowth

By: Christoph Gran

macroeconomics; degrowth; scenarios; welfare; ecological economics

Scientific paper • 2014

Problems of unlimited economic Growth

By: Hugo Hanbury

Degrowth, environment, consumerism, transition, world food system

Scientific paper • 2014

SOCIAL CURRENCY AS AN INSTITUTION NEEDED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

By: Ricardo Orzi

Abstract: The present work tries to recognize the importance of social-complementary currency systems for the sustainability of a social and ecological economy. The official currency and the current monetary systems promote an approach of perpetual growth, the predominance of the relation of competition in opposition to cooperation, and a mechanistic paradigm of society like a sum of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Microcapitalism- the end of compulsory growth (revised final version)

By: Walter Oswalt

Abstract: Inequality by Semi-Liberalism . Power-Equality by Radical Liberalism -Any step towards egalitarian power distribution will reduce the pressure for economic growth. Microcapitalism maximizes individual freedom and minimizes concentration of economic power and abolishes the compulsion to economic growth. This proposal for an egalitarian market economy without growth compulsion is one...

Scientific paper • 2014

Cooperative Labor Beyond Growth

By: Jukka Peltokoski

Abstract: Economic growth in capitalism is structurally tied to the organization of labour as wage work. In capitalism an employee produces surplus for an employer to fulfill the economic anticipation invested in the firm. This 'growth imperative' is built inside the form of wage work. In the contemporary era of permanent economic and ecological crisis, the capitalistic growth has to be...

Scientific paper • 2014

The present day monetary and financial systems: What´s wrong and what must be changed for a post-growth economy

By: Helge Peukert

Abstract: A basic question will be which elements and factors of the present-day financial and monetary sectors are drivers for economic growth and in how far they must and could be changed in favor of a degrowth economy and which elements of the present system might be preserved. I will present basic facts, structural relationships, institutional details and recent developments and formulate...

Scientific paper • 2014

The threat of (not) being exploited: How inequality promotes growth dispositions

By: Tilman Reitz, Tine Haubner

Abstract: In discussions about the main growth drivers in our societies, two explanations often collide: a cultural account of growth dispositions and an economic account of capitalist growth imperatives. The planned contribution aims at bridging the gap between these accounts. Its central idea is that flexible global capitalism increasingly binds exploitation to the relative weakness and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Theoretical considerations on growth imperatives in a monetary economy

By: Oliver Richters, Ferdin, Wenzlaff, Christian Kimmich

Abstract: If an ongoing growth is considered impossible or undesirable, the growth dependence of man-made structures such as social security systems have to be carefully revised. In the post-growth debate, the monetary system based on credit money combined with positive interest rates is often criticized and accused of causing a growth imperative. The contribution refutes this oversimplified...

Scientific paper • 2014

Growth forces: Material rent and efficiency consumption

By: Andreas Siemoneit

Abstract: Producers and distributors as well as consumers are using frequently more technical products that enhance their cost efficiency and their economic (and social) competitiveness. This has sweeping distributive consequences which are inescapable. This effect is not restricted to a certain economic system, but requires only the fact that higher efficiency directs demand toward the more...

Position paper • 2014

New tools for new times. Cocreating the world currency of the future

By: Miguel San Miguel

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Money and Finance.

Position paper • 2014

Degrowth and the need to reform Social Security systems - What scope for Synergies

By: Kerstin Hoette

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Social Security.