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Scientific paper • 2017

Are we entering the age of involuntary degrowth? Promethean technologies and declining returns of innovation

Keywords: Involuntary degrowth; Promethean technologies; Declining marginal returns on innovation; Georgescu-Roegen bioeconomics; Complex system theory; TFP growth

Misc • 2017

Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics

By: Niko Paech, Bengi Akbulut, Joan Martinez-Alier, Max Koch, Tone Smith, Viviana Asara, Ulrich Brand, Christian Kerschner, Ines Omann, Felix Rauschmayer, Irmi Seidl, Nadia Johanisova, Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Patrick Bond, Nuno Videira, Brian Czech, Andy Stirling, Eva Fraňková, Fikret Adaman, Begüm Özkaynak, Alf Hornborg, Roger Strand, Rui Santos, Clive L. Spash, Armin Puller, Arild Vatn, Ariel Salleh, Ali Douai, Eric Berr, Karolina Safarzynska, Kozo Torasan Mayumi, Armin Dieter, Fridolin Krausmann, Vincent Devictor, Richard B. Norgaard, Lorenz Stör, Markus Wissen, Asad Zaman, Peter E. Earl, Karin Dobernig, Wolfgang J. Fellner, John O’Neill, Katie McShane, Richard B. Howarth, Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, Salvatore Greco, Giuseppe Munda, Rebecca White, Ben Davies, Kirsty L. Blackstock, Jasper Kenter, Paula Antunes, Jon D. Erickson, Melinda Kane, Philippe Roman, Géraldine Thiry, Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos, Daniel Hausknost, Molly Scott Cato, Laura Frye-Levine, Richard S. Levine, Pat Devine

Contents Part I Foundations 1. Social ecological economics - Clive L. Spash 2. A critical and realist approach to ecological economics - Armin Puller and Tone Smith Part II Heterodox thought on the environment 3. Critical institutional economics - Arild Vatn 4. Political ecology and unequal exchange - Alf Hornborg 5. Ecofeminism - Ariel Salleh 6. Ecological Marxism and ecological economics:...

Misc • 2017

Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Abstract: What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can ‘culture jamming’ contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this new book I explore these questions, both in theory and practice. I begin with a theoretical defence of art and...

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth as an ‘Aesthetics of Existence’

By: Samuel Alexander

"In recent decades the ‘limits to growth’ position has received a great deal of attention, mostly from economic and ecological perspectives (Meadows et al 2004, Daly 1996, Jackson 2009, Turner 2012). More recently, the degrowth movement has begun contributing an important range of new political and sociological analyses (see generally, D’Alisa, Demaria, and Kallis 2015), offering deeper insight...

Misc • 2017

Has ‘Degrowth’ Outgrown its Own Name?

By: Giorgos Kallis, Kate Raworth

The following article presents a debate that was first published on From Poverty to Power, a conversational blog maintained by Duncan Green. It is kicked off by Kate Raworth, renegade economist and development re-thinker, who feels that degrowth has outgrown its name. In reply Giorgos Kallis, the world’s leading academic on degrowth, counters with the view that ‘degrowth’ is still a compelling...

Scientific paper • 2017

Capitalism, Democracy, and the Degrowth Horizon

By: Leandro Vergara-Camus

Keywords: Marx, capitalist accumulation, competition, control of the means of production, de-commodification

Misc • 2017

Degrowth: Unterschiedliche Strategien, dieselben Kämpfe

By: Manfred Ecker

Degrowth (im deutschen als Postwachstum bezeichnet) nennt sich das Konzept einer Strömung innerhalb der Klimaschutzbewegung, die das Wirtschaftswachstums in den Industrienationen zulasten der Umwelt und des globalen Südens angreift. Aus sozialistischer Sicht hat diese Theorie wichtige Stärken und Schwächen. (Einführung) Vierter und letzter Teil einer Serie. Alle Artikel aus der Serie: Teil 1:...

Misc • 2017

John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology

By: Saral Sarkar, John Bellamy Foster

Introduction by Ian Angus March 30, 2017 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Climate & Capitalism – The Indian website Ecologise recently published John Bellamy Foster’s Foreword to my book Facing the Anthropocene. Commenting on Foster’s article, journalist and activist Saral Sarkar, who describes his views as eco-socialist, raised questions that challenge the...

Misc • 2017

On the ecology of capitalism

By: Antithesi

From the introduction: According to the apologetic ideology of “environmental economics” the disturbance of the ecological balance of the planet, the accumulation of pollutants and toxic substances, i.e. the destruction of the natural preconditions for the satisfaction of human social needs, is a result of the inherent conflict between humanity and extra-human nature. The origin of these...

Scientific paper • 2016

The Hegemony of Growth - The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

By: Matthias Schmelzer

German summary by the author, published on VÖÖ.de: Die Dominanz des Wachstumsgebots ist kaum zu übersehen. Es erscheint auf den Titelseiten der Zeitungen, spielt eine Schlüsselrolle in ökonomischen Analysen, und durchzieht politische Debatten, sowohl über Ländergrenzen als auch das politische Spektrum hinweg. Diese Priorität des Wirtschaftswachstums – die der Umwelthistoriker John McNeill...

Misc • 2016

Wachstumsgrenzen: Die (Post-) Wachstumsdebatte in der aktuellen Fachliteratur

By: Hans Holzinger

Zukunftsdossier No 6 der Initiative Wachstum im Wandel des österreichischen Bundesministeriums für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft anlässlich der 3. Internationalen Konferenz „Wachstum im Wandel“. Blog Postwachstum: Der Verfasser, Hans Holzinger, bietet darin einen umfassenden Überblick über gegenwärtige Positionen zum Thema Postwachstum. Die zusammengestellte...

Misc • 2016

The growthocene: Thinking through what degrowth is criticising

By: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Alexander Paulsson

From the text: In what follows, we articulate three ways of understanding growth that should be challenged by degrowth: first, reliance on biophysical throughput; second, capital accumulation and productivism more generally; and third, perpetual strive for quantitative expansion of national economies (measured in GDP). We also propose that growthocene can be a suitable way to characterise the...

Misc • 2016

Globale Wirtschaft: Ausgewachsen

By: Alexander Demling

Zusammengefasst von Spiegel Online: Ein Team deutscher Ökonomen glaubt, dass ihre Zunft bisher mit falschen Modellen an das Phänomen Wirtschaftswachstum herangeht. Sie glauben, dass die Wirtschaft in westlichen Staaten viel langsamer wachsen wird als bisher angenommen und fordern radikale Anpassungen durch die Politik. Andere Ökonomen sagen, die aktuelle Wachstumsschwäche könne durch...

Scientific paper • 2016

Do Mature Economies Grow Exponentially?

By: Steffen Lange, Peter Pütz, Thomas Kopp

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, exponential growth, linear growth, time series analysis.

Position paper • 2016

Replik auf "Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Eine Analyse wachstumskritischer Argumente"

By: Nina Treu, Elena Hofferberth

Einleitung: In ihrer Studie "Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Eine Analyse wachstumskritischer Argumente" (Funke et al. 2015) veröffentlicht eine studentische Gruppe die Ergebnisse eines Seminars, in welchem sich die Autor_innen kritisch mit dem Konzept Postwachstum auseinandergesetzt haben. Die Autor_innen fragen "Müssen wir Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Wollen wir dies? Und können wir es...

Presentation • 2016

Limits without scarcity: why Malthus was wrong

By: Giorgos Kallis

45 Minute Video of a lecture by Giorgos Kallis at SOAS, London. He explains how the notion of limits can and should be reclaimed from the hands of Malthusians.

Misc • 2016

Outgrowing the twin simplifications of Growth and Degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Andy Stirling

In a series of 3 blog posts Andy Stirling, responds to the ideas of Giorgos Kallis on the ‘degrowth hypothesis'. Andy Stirling heard a talk by Girogos Kallis and afterwards wrote these 3 blog posts, which are again answered by Kallis. > Part 1 > Part 2 > Part 3 > Answer by Giorgos Kallis From Giorgos Kallis answer: Andy argues that ‘the choices lie not just in growth or degrowth,...

Interview • 2016

"Man braucht eine positive Krise"

By: Athanasios Karathanassis, Peter Nowak

Aus dem Interview: . . . Was wäre für Sie der Maßstab für einen Gipfelerfolg gewesen? Eine wirklich historische Wende hin zu einer »Dekarbonisierung« wäre etwas anderes gewesen: das verbindliche Abschalten von Kohlekraftwerken, das sofortige Bereitstellen der erforderlichen finanziellen Mittel für den Aufbau regenerativer Energiequellen, die ersetzend und nicht ergänzend zu fossilen eingesetzt...

Scientific paper • 2016

Growth Critique in the 1970s Crisis and Today: Malthusianism, Social Mechanics, and Labor Discipline

By: Maria Markantonatou

Abstract: This article examines the perspective on labor in two critiques of “growth” as elaborated in the context of two capitalist crises: the Keynesian model of industrial development in the 1970s, and the neoliberal finance capitalist growth model of today. A landmark event for the first critique was the publication of the “Limits to Growth” report, and for the second the emergence of the...

Misc • 2016

Undoing the Ideology of Growth: Hegemony, Path Dependencies and Power in the History of the Growth Paradigm

By: Matthias Schmelzer

"Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations....