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Interview • 2015

Kritik der Grünen Ökonomie - Podcast

By: Barbara Unmüßig, Lili Fuhr, David Siebert

Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Interview-Podcast zum Thema "Kritik der Grünen Ökonomie" mit den Autorinnen Barbara Unmüßig und Lili Fuhr. Durch das Gespräch führt David Siebert. Taugen „grüne“ Technologien und Innovationen als Patentrezept für den ökologischen Umbau von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – oder heizen sie nur weiter die Konsumspirale an? Gibt es so etwas wie „Grünes Wachstum“? Lassen sich...

Interview • 2015

Kämpfer für das gute Leben

By: Alberto Acosta, Christoph Quarch

Aus dem Text: Als Politiker hat Alberto Acosta die indigene Idee des »Buen Vivir« – des guten Lebens – in seiner Heimat Ecuador hoffähig gemacht. Heute streitet der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler dafür, weltweit die Rechte der Natur zu kodifizieren und fordert die »Entmarktung« der Gemeingüter. [. . .] »Unter Buen Vivir verstehen wir ein Leben in Harmonie: der Mensch in Harmonie mit sich selbst,...

Presentation • 2015

Michael Sandel: The more things money can buy, the harder it is to be poor

By: Michael Sandel

The publisher: Over the last few decades we've become a market society where almost everything is up for sale – there are cash incentives for doctors who diagnose dementia patients and for teachers whose students get better exam results. The problem, says Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, is that where money determines access to necessities such as health and education, inequality matters...

Interview • 2015

Interview: Daniela Gottschlich - Elevate Festival 2015

By: Daniela Gottschlich

Interview: Daniela Gottschlich - Elevate Festival 2015 from Elevate Festival on Vimeo. Daniela Gottschlich spricht über räumliche und zeitliche Externalisierung sowie die Rolle des Elevate Festivals in ihrer eigenen Arbeit und Resonanz.

Misc • 2015

Care Revolution. Schritte in eine solidarische Gesellschaft

By: Gabriele Winker

Der Verlag: Viele Menschen geraten beim Versuch, gut für sich und andere zu sorgen, an die Grenzen ihrer Kräfte. Was als individuelles Versagen gegenüber den alltäglichen Anforderungen erscheint, ist jedoch Folge einer neoliberalen Krisenbearbeitung. Notwendig ist daher ein grundlegender Perspektivenwechsel – nicht weniger als eine Care Revolution. Gabriele Winker entwickelt Schritte in...

Scientific paper • 2014

Beyond extractivism: Debates and Practices around Post-Extractivism in Latin America

By: Alberto Acosta

extractivism, neocolonialism, redistribution, ecological costs

Scientific paper • 2014

“’Sustainable Development’: the International Struggle over Wealth, Distribution and Limits”

By: Iris Borowy

Abstract: The concept of sustainable development emerged in the early 1980s when existing theories proved unable to provide convincing models of how to satisfy the seemingly contradictory developmental demands of simultaneously increasing wealth, of keeping production and consumption within global environmental limits and of providing an equitable distribution of material goods and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Social sustainability practice in local government

By: Mark Boulle

Abstract: This paper presents the findings from doctoral research into social sustainability practice of Australian local government. It is argued that the social pillar of sustainability has received less attention in research and practice than environmental and economic pillars of sustainability. The research contends there is a leading role for local government to play in incorporating...

Scientific paper • 2014

Working Less: Policies for Fairness in the Sharing of Liberated Time

By: Mark Cramer

Abstract: The degrowth vision of working less to enjoy life more is reserved primarily for people who possess certain material or philosophical tools. From Epicurus to anti-consumerism, overworked masses have indirectly subsidized lovers of idle conviviality. Therefore, opposition to wealth inequality should feature a struggle for justice in the realm of leisure time. The idle Thoreau, walking...

Scientific paper • 2014

Towards a sustainable society: Concept for an alternative economic system

By: Thomas Frisius

Abstract: The current capitalistic economic system is very prone to crises, social inequity and waste of natural resources. In combination, this threatens the means of livelihood for future generations and is, therefore, at variance with a sustainable development. An alternative economic system is proposed with the potential to overcome these difficulties. In this system, international trade is...

Scientific paper • 2014

Ways towards an egalitarian post-growth society

By: Yorck Hauß

Abstract: In the early industrialized countries the economic growth rates are declining. Various symptoms of instability are showing already. Furthermore, economic growth has reached social and ecological boundaries. This implies the need for a transformation of the present social structure. A stable post-growth society has to be either egalitarian or authoritarian. There is empirical evidence...

Scientific paper • 2014

Let them Eat War: Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Conflict

By: Sören Köpke

Abstract: Climate change is increasingly framed as a security concern. Proponents of the environmental security discourse warn that dwindling water resources, loss of arable land and grazing grounds will cause hunger and conflict. These resource-related conflicts will arise in the most vulnerable parts of the Global South. However, this discourse is blind to the political economy of a...

Scientific paper • 2014

Bhutan: Between Happiness and Horror

By: Lorenzo Pellegrini, Luca Tasciotti

Abstract: This study juxtaposes the congratulatory rhetoric surrounding Bhutan’s efforts to promote happiness and the gross violations of human rights that coincide with the happiness project. The academic debate has not reflected on the Janus-faced nature of the Bhutanese regime and the literature is replete with references to the Bhutanese happiness search. From these acclaims, it appears...

Scientific paper • 2014

Equity and emissions. How are household emissions distributed, what are their drivers and what are possible implications for future climate mitigation?

By: Jonas Pohlmann, Nils Ohlendorf

Abstract: This paper analyses the distribution of CO2 emissions over households in Germany, identifies their socio-economic drivers and discusses the policy implications. On the basis of an environmentally extended input output model, the CO2 intensities for consumption-based emissions from different categories are calculated and allocated to the expenditure data of a representative survey of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Growth model, developmentalism and way forwards for degrowth in Bangladesh

By: Arup Rahee

Abstract: Bangladesh has been a successful laboratory case for hegemonic growth model development practices by the developmentalist forces and their native allies and failed the people for their quest for affluence and a collective better life. Growth model has been a tool for sustaining poverty through hegemonic social and cultural institutions and practices. Based on Bangladesh experience and...

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

The Iron Cage of the Elites: Time Consuming Efforts to Stay on Top

By: Hartmut Rosa

Abstract: From a traditional leftist perspective centered on class-struggle, things are easy: The capitalist economy produces winners and losers. The rich, the winners, gain wealth, time and freedom, while the losers have to sell their time and their autonomy and remain poor at that. With respect to time, the difference is portrayed as the difference between those who can command over their...

Scientific paper • 2014

Alternative currencies and de-growth: average value of labour time as basis for enhancement of interest-free credit systems

By: Maurizio Ruzzene

Abstract: This presentation considers problems and benefits that can follow from linking time currencies to an average social value of labour time. The link to an average social value of labour time (i.e. applying an average hourly wage to a standard time unit) can greatly ex-tend the application of time-based currencies. It can significantly enhance their interest-free long-term credit...

Scientific paper • 2014

The relationship between intragenerational and intergenerational justice in the use of ecosystems and their services

By: Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefan Baumgärtner, Martin Quaas

Abstract: Most scientific research on a “degrowth-economy” is motivated by finding pathways to build a just society, in terms of both intragenerational justice and intergenerational justice. As conflicts in attaining the two justices (may) arise in the design and implementation of sustainability policy, the relationship between the objectives of intragenerational and intergenerational justice...

Scientific paper • 2014

Labour in Germany

By: Volker Stöckel

Abstract: Here it is a special view to the relationship from three of the core-values of the german economy – the waged work volume (labour), the gross domestic (GDP) product and the stock of fixed assets (capital or curdled labour). The relationship on the scale of things, aggregated in the alpha of the Cobb-Douglas-Function over the time, shows a developement over the last 40 years and there...