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Scientific paper • 2018

Research on degrowth

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Steffen Lange, Susan Paulson, Giorgos Kallis, Barbara Muraca, Vasilis Kostakis

Abstract: Scholars and activists mobilize increasingly the term degrowth when producing knowledge critical of the ideology and costs of growth-based development. Degrowth signals a radical political and economic reorganization leading to reduced resource and energy use. The degrowth hypothesis posits that such a trajectory of social transformation is necessary, desirable, and possible; the...

Report • 2018

Towards a socio-ecological transformation of the economy

By: Stephan Lutter, Fred Luks, Sigrid Stagl

Background report for the Growth in Transition Conference "Europe's Transformation: Where People Matter" in Vienna, 14-15 November 2018

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 - Workshop Economic Models

By: Simone d'Alessandro, Daniel Mügge, Bjorn Döhring, Arthur Turrell, Nicole Dewandre

Chair: Alojz Peterle, MEP (EPP) Panellists: Simone d’Alessandro (University of Pisa), Daniel Mügge (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Professor of Political Arithmetic), Bjorn Döhring (European Commission, Head of Unit for Economic situation, forecasts, business and consumer surveys), Arthur Turrell (Co-Author of “An Interdisciplinary Model for Macroeconomics” (Oxford Review of Economic Policy,...

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Internalizing Externalities

By: Clive Spash, Denis Bouget, Anne Bucher, Stefan Ulrich Speck

Chair: Philippe Lamberts, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Denis Bouget (European Social Observatory, European Trade Union Institute, Emeritus Professor of Nantes University), Clive Spash (WU Vienna University), Anne Bucher (European Commission, Chair of the Scrutiny Regulatory Board), Stefan Ulrich Speck (European Environment Agency, Projet manager (sustainability assessments))

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Money, Debt and Interest Rates in a Post-Growth Economy

By: Fran Boait, Josh Ryon-Collins, Thorsten Guthke

Chair: Molly Scott-Cato, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Fran Boait (Positive Money, Executive Director), Josh Ryan-Collins (UCL Institution for Innovation and Public Purpose, Head of Research), Thorsten Guthke (Association of German Public Banks, VÖB)

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Sustainable Fiscal Consolidation

By: Elisabeth Hege, Gaël Giraud, Marco Buti

Chair : Philippe Lamberts, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Elisabeth Hege (IDDRI, Governance and financing of sustainable development), Gaël Giraud (French Development Agency, senior economist), Marco Buti (European Commission, Director General of DG EcFin)

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Las biorrefinerías y los límites de la economía circular

By: Graciela Carrillo

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las posibilidades y límites que ofrecen las biorrefinerías como una alternativa que se presenta en el marco de la economía circular.

Misc • 2018

Faire l'économie de la haine. Essais sur la censure

By: Alain Deneault

Point de haine de l’économie là où on nous fait aimer l’argent, à tout prix. Point de haine de l’économie, mais une économie de la haine. Le programme: faire l’économie de la haine. Haïr sans qu’il n’y paraisse. Ainsi s’investit-on dans l’asservissement à l’argent. Sous les données, sous les calculs et sous la spéculation : des crimes, du sang, du vol et des morts, mais assourdis par ce savoir...

Scientific paper • 2018

Degrowth in business: An oxymoron or a viable business model for sustainability?

By: Yaryna Khmara, Jakub Kronenber

Based on a review of literature connecting degrowth and business, we attempt to operationalize degrowth in the context of business activity, and consider what degrowth can add to the business models for sustainability discussed so far. In most discussions on degrowth, economic activity has been reduced to relatively marginal activities. We see a need to connect degrowth to more typical business...

Misc • 2018

Degrowth in Tourism

By: Konstantinos Andriotis

Conceptual, Theoretical and Philosophical Issues Degrowth in Tourism explores newly-emerging development and philosophical approaches that provide more equity for host communities and offer a low-carbon future by looking at alternatives to the classic models of development and applying the concept of degrowth in a tourism context.

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Ecological micro-economics: reimagining the institutional firm as an agent of change

By: Caleb Gingrich Regehr

How could the production-organizing institution(s) of the economy be reimagined so that maintaining ecological integrity becomes an integral goal and outcome of their operations?

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - La economía industrial no es circular sino entrópica

By: Joan Martinez Alier

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Jueves por Joan Martínez Alier: "La economía industrial no es circular sino entrópica"

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - De las economías de la guerra a la economía del común

By: Andrea Neira

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Jueves por Andrea Neira: "De las economías de la guerra a la economía del común. Desafío y disputas del sujeto neoliberal desde las nuevas configuraciones de las FARC en Colombia hoy"

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Decrecimiento o aceleración?

By: Humberto Beck

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Martes por Humberto Beck: "¿Decrecimiento o aceleración? Miradas críticas sobre los modelos de desarrollo dominantes, luchas ecoterritoriales e imaginarios alternativos"

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Macroeconomía para el Ecozoico

By: Peter Brown

Conferencia (En Línea) de la Plenaria del Jueves por Peter Brown: "Macroeconomía para el Ecozoico."

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - The post Wiindigo, regenerative economy

By: Winona LaDuke

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Miércoles por Winona Laduke: "The post Wiindigo, regenerative economy"

Misc • 2017

Prosperity without Growth 2nd Edition

By: Tim Jackson

Subtitle: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow 2nd Edition of Tim Jacksons "Prosperity without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet" The publisher: What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits? The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly...

Misc • 2017

Postwachstumspolitiken - Wege zur wachstumsunabhängigen Gesellschaft

By: Nina Treu, Frank Adloff, Matthias Schmelzer, Corinna Burkhart, Steffen Lange, Jana Gebauer, Ulrich Brand, Felix Ekardt, Helge Peukert, Oliver Richters, Ulrich Schachtschneider, Andreas Siemoneit, Dirk Posse, Harald Bender, Norbert Bernholt, Uta von Winterfeld, Robert Koepp, Christoph Köhler, Steffen Liebig, Frank Adler, Damian Ludewig, Jana Flemming, Fritz Reheis, Michael Kopatz, Christoph Sanders, Dagmar Comtesse, Maik Hosang, Eva Lang, Theresia Wintergerst, Hans-Peter Studer, Daniel Fuhrhop

Herausgeber_innen: Wie werden demokratische Übergänge zu einem Leben und Wirtschaften möglich, deren Qualität und Stabilität nicht vom permanenten ökonomischen Wachstum abhängen? Reicht dafür eine Bottom-up-Strategie? Reichen all die Non-profit-Unternehmen, Tauschläden und Kulturen des Selbermachens als Keime einer im Entstehen begriffenen Postwachstumsökonomie und -gesellschaft? Wir meinen:...

Scientific paper • 2017

Perspektiven einer Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum

By: Christoph Gran

Der Verlag: Der zentrale Stellenwert, den Wirtschaftswachstum in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften, aber auch in Medien, Politik und der Öffentlichkeit einnimmt, wird angesichts der massiven Überschreitung ökologischer Grenzen sowie des schwindenden Zusammenhangs von Wirtschaftswachstum und Lebensqualität zunehmend infrage gestellt. Hinzu kommt, dass in vielen frühindustrialisierten Ländern, so...

Scientific paper • 2017

Beyond (anti)utilitarianism: khat and alternatives to growth in northern Madagascar

By: Lisa L. Gezon

Keywords: Madagascar, khat, utilitarian, degrowth, economy, urban