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Scientific paper • 2012

Two challenges for creating democratically accountable local currencies to cope with unvoluntary degrowth: Lessons from Argentina

Abstract: Local currencies issued by civil society are often advocated by the degrowth movement as innovations that facilitate voluntary degrowth, but also as tools for coping with chaotic instances of unvoluntary degrowth, such as the present crisis in southern Europe. This paper provides a concise history of Argentina’s barter networks, which attracted millions of participants during the...

Misc • 2012

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein - A Short Film

By: Ian MacKenzie, Charles Eisenstein

Licensed Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial. Note: Subtitles are also available in other languages. Short Video in which the author Charles Eisenstein explains his concept of 'Sacred Economics'. Topics in the video are: Money, what it is, what it does and where it comes from, alienation and community, gift economy, some growth critique and more. About the Book "Sacred Economics",...

Scientific paper • 2012

Wachstumszwang in der Geldwirtschaft? Theoretische Erwägungen

By: Christoph Freydorf, Oliver Richters, Ferdin, Wenzlaff, Christian Kimmich, Thomas Koudela, Ludwig Schuster

Abstract: Der Zusammenhang von Wachstums- und Zinsrate wird in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften ausführlich behandelt. Dabei besteht Konsens, dass sinkende Wachstumsraten aus sozio-ökonomischen Gründen unerwünscht sind. Gleichzeitig deuten jedoch immer mehr Forschungsergebnisse darauf hin, dass Wachstum nicht zuletzt aus ökologischen Gründen an Grenzen stößt und mit ...

Report • 2012

Where Does Money Come From?

By: Tony Greenham, Josh Ryan-Collins, Richard Werner, Andrew Jackson

Key findings, according to the NEF: > There is widespread misunderstanding of how new money is created: even among bankers, economists, and policymakers > Physical cash accounts for less than 3 per cent of the total stock of money in the economy > The absence of this understanding makes attempts at banking reform more likely to fail Below you find the introduction of the publication.

Scientific paper • 2012

The Priced versus the Priceless

By: Derek Rasmussen

From the text: I was listening to CBC, the national Canadian radio service, several years ago when the interviewer, Michael Enright, began chatting with a fellow named Alouitious from Newfoundland. Alouitious had a farm which was within the city limits of the capital, St John’s; so the first question that Enright asked him was, “How does it feel to be living such an old-fashioned way of life in...

Interview • 2012

Rethinking Economic Growth

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Josh Farley

[ Josh Farley // Rethinking Economic Growth ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Josh Farley made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Josh Farley explains what money is, respectively where it comes from, as well as how debt works. He further says what degrowth means for him: a downscaling of the economy so it fits with the earth...

Scientific paper • 2012

Capitalism, Religion and the Idea of the Demonic

By: Christoph Deutschmann

Abstract: The paper enters the vast debate on capitalism and religion and offers a discrete interpretation of their relationship. On the one hand, it is questioned to consider capitalism as a secularized social system in which religions do no longer play a dominant public role, although its historical rise may have been influenced by religious movements. On the other hand,...

Report • 2012

Feministische Perspektiven zum Themenbereich Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität

By: Adelheid Biesecker, Christa Wichterich, Uta v. Winterfeld

Hintergrundpapier von Adelheid Biesecker, Christa Wichterich und Uta v. Winterfeld. Dieser Text entstand als feministische Expertise für die laufende Arbeit der Enquete-Kommission „Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität“ (2011-13). Inhalt 1. Einleitung 2. Vom Geld 2.1. Eigenschaften und Qualitäten von Geld 2.2.Vom entfesselten Geld als Kapital – oder: Von Wachstums- und Schuldenzwängen 2.3....

Scientific paper • 2012

The Euthanasia of the Rentier — A Way toward a Steady-State Economy?

By: Dirk Loehr

Keywords: Steady state; Free money; Zero interest rate; Sufficiency

Misc • 2012

Der diskreditierte Staat. Alternativen zur Staatsverschuldung und zu Schuldenbremsen

By: Heinz-J. Bontrup

„Der seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre immer mehr geführte massive Angriff auf den Staat, genauer gesagt auf den verfassungsrechtlich verankerten Sozialstaat, und seine Verschuldung, wird von neoliberalen Interessen vertretern geschickt geführt. Sie nutzen ein allgemein in der Gesellschaft bestehendes (gesundes) Misstrauen gegen staatliche Obrigkeit und womöglich auftretender staatlicher...

Scientific paper • 2012

Why the lock-in of financialisation could further delay a low carbon and just transition beyond the growth paradigm

By: Antonio Tricarico, Elena Gerebizza

Introduction: We live in a time of finance capitalism, when trading money, risk and associated products is more profitable and outpaces trading goods and services for capital accumulation. That is in short what people often refer to as “financialisation” of the economy. This has huge implications for where capital is invested and the everyday exposure of people to capital markets, as more and...

Scientific paper • 2012

Abhängigkeit vom Wirtschaftswachstum als Hindernis für eine Politik innerhalb der limits to growth

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Irmi Seidl

Herausgeberinnen: Die Grenzen des Wachstums von Meadows et al.(1972) holen uns nach 40 Jahren ein. Doch inzwischen hat das Wirtschaftswachstum die Funktionsweisen vieler gesellschaftlicher Systeme durchdrungen und diese wachstumsabhängig gemacht. Ziel muss es sein, diese Abhängigkeit aufzulösen und Perspektiven für eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft zu entwickeln.

Scientific paper • 2011

Sacred Economics

By: Charles Eisenstein

About the Book "Sacred Economics", from the book's webpage: Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find...

Educational paper • 2011

Lebensqualität und Wirtschaftswachstum

By: Sustainable Austria

Ein Mitmachbuch in dem die eigenen Glücks- und Lebensvorstellungen thematisiert werden.

Report • 2011

Krötenwanderung jetzt! - Bank wechseln - und Druck machen für ein anderes Bankensystem!

By: Max Bank, Erik Berta, Timm Faust, Tilman Hartwig, Harro Honolka, Sebastian Lange, Kay Oliver Schulze, Jutta Sundermann

Banken machen Geschäfte mit Hunger und Krieg. Sie schleusen Milliarden unversteuert in so genannte Steueroasen - oder besser „Schattenfinanzplätze“ - und betreiben von dort aus die abenteuerlichsten Geschäfte. Investmentbanker verdienen mit riskanten Geschäften viele Millionen – und wissen, dass für die Folgen ihres Handelns letztlich die Allgemeinheit zahlt. Die Wut auf „die Banken“ ist groß....

Misc • 2010

Geld oder Leben - Was uns wirklich reich macht

By: Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

Der Verlag: Unser gesamtes Tun ist darauf ausgerichtet, »Geld zu machen«, um es anschließend wieder in konkrete Dinge des täglichen Lebens zurückzutauschen – etwa in Essen oder ein Dach über dem Kopf. Was aber, wenn diese Verwandlungskunst nicht mehr klappt, weil das Geld sich in Luft aufgelöst hat? Spätestens dann ist es an der Zeit, unser Finanz- und Wirtschaftssystem grundlegend zu...

Misc • 2010

Designing financial institutions for a shrinking or no-growth economy

By: Richard Douthwaite

Input-text for a workshop by Richard Douthwaite at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona. Introduction: Leaving insurance aside, two broad types of financial institution will be needed in a de-growth world. Some institutions will be concerned with payments. They will look after the movement of money from one...

Position paper • 2010

Zero growth and zero interest rate: The revival of an old idea

By: Dirk Löhr

Transcription of an oral Session by Dirk Löhr at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Managing Degrowth: Employment, Security and the Economy under a degrowth trajectory" Abstract: Every euro or dollar of economic growth causes a stress mark of energy consumption, waste production, land use and water...

Scientific paper • 2010

Solidary Popular Bank, Ceará, Brazil. A practice compatible with the paradigm of degrowth

By: Gisella Colares Gomes, Elimar Pinheiro do Nascimento

Transcription of an poster session by Gisella Colares Gomes and Elimar Pinheiro do Nascimento at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Solidary Popular Bank, Ceará, Brazil. A practice compatible with the paradigm of degrowth".

Presentation • 2010

Changing Money - Changing markets: opportunities and challenges in relation with Degrowth

By: Lucia del Moral Espin

Poster by Lucia del Moral Espin at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Changing Money - Changing markets: opportunities and challenges in relation with Degrowth".