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Scientific paper • 2016

Potentialities of the Social and Solidarity Economy for Buen Vivir and Degrowth.

Recently many authors have analyzed the links between the Buen Vivir (BV) and Degrowth (DG) paradigms (Escobar 2010, 2015, Thomson 2011, Unceta 2013, 2014, D’Alisa et al. 2015). They see many similarities between both proposals regarding: the critic of growth, the need for transition strategies, the re-conceptualization of wellbeing, new values, the commons, etc. But there are too some...

Scientific paper • 2016

Prospects of an unconditional basic income in a degrowth economy

By: Thomas Frisius

It is already evident that current present-day industrial nations can offer a basic income without risking the collapse of the economy. Even the supply with an unconditional basic income (UBI) is imaginable. However, it is not obvious whether an UBI sufficing for more than the subsistence consumption can be realized in a degrowth economy. A simple mathematical model is applied to estimate the...

Scientific paper • 2016

Science and degrowth

By: Fabrice Flipo

Political prayers lie on the growth’s comeback to ensure financial incomes to be given out. That for science is seen by many essentially as a tool to provide techniques able to raise productivity, whatever the environmental or social consequences. For those reasons, and especially since the second half of the 20th century, public policy and investment have allowed unprecedented technical...

Scientific paper • 2016

Solidarity as a Form of Life

By: Bastian Ronge

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité were the famous keywords of the French Revolution. Modern philosophy reflected intensely on the concepts of freedom and equality, but neglected fraternity or rather solidarity. Hence, solidarity remained a “wishy-washy concept” (Jaeggi 2001, 287) until today. In my presentation I suggest conceptualizing solidarity as a form of life. That means: I will put forward...

Scientific paper • 2016

Theoretical and historical perspectives on technology

By: Mauro Bonaiuti, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Mario Pansera, Pasi Heikkurinen, Lukáš Likavčan

This is the first of a planned ‘trilogy’ of sessions on the contentious relationship between degrowth and technology. It represents the first of three subthemes of a special issue on degrowth and technology, which is currently being edited for the Journal of Cleaner Production. The aim of this special session is to bring together different theoretical and historical perspectives on technology,...

Scientific paper • 2016

Understanding capitalism. Marx meets degrowth

By: Elke Pirgmaier

This paper is a theoretical contribution to the economics of degrowth. It is motivated by the fact that degrowth proponents attack capitalism for its drive for accumulation which relates to a range of socio-ecological crises. The emphasis on growth translates rather quickly into the development of concrete degrowth proposals. While the activist spirit is admirable, a profound understanding of...

Scientific paper • 2016

Understand the Chinese New Rural Reconstruction Movement (NRRM) as an example of Degrowth Theory

By: Rowan Alcock

From my research on Degrowth China is conspicuous in its absence. Degrowth theory, in order to be a global movement, should begin to research this increasingly important country in more detail. People may believe that one of the world's biggest environmental polluters where multiparty elections are illegal could not possibly have an indigenous degrowth movement. However in my paper I argue that...

Educational paper • 2016

Politikwissenschaft: Eine Einführung

By: Hans-Joachim Lauth, Christian Wagner

Für die 8. Auflage wurde dieser Klassiker unter den Einführungen in die Politikwissenschaft erneut aktualisiert. Er gibt einen studien- und problemorientierten Überblick über die zentralen Fragestellungen und Themenfelder der Politikwissenschaft. Behandelt werden: Historische Entwicklung und aktueller Stand des Faches, seine theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen und – ausführlich – die...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Has degrowth outgrown its own name? In defence of an ugly frame.

By: Federico Demaria

Presentation by Federico Demaria Degrowth was first used and find its roots in the 1970s debate of the limits to growth. At the beginning of the 2000s it was launched as a slogan by activists, and in the following decade turned into a frame for a social movement as well as a concept debated in academia. Although its origins have been traced (Demaria et al 2013), two main issues remain...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Degrowth: A “missile word” that backfires? Cognitive aspects of the growth debate.

By: Miklós Antal

Presentation by Miklós Antal Language use and cognition are generally underappreciated topics in alternative economics, even if effective communication is essential for social and political impact. To challenge the economic growth paradigm, the concept and term degrowth has recently been embraced by various activists and scholars. Drawing on a body of evidence from cognitive science, psychology...

Scientific paper • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Mapping sustainable wellbeing viewpoints on two dimensions: technical and socio-cultural decoupling

By: Timo Järvernsivu

Presentation by Timo Järvensivu It seems that discussions between camps such as ”green growth” and ”degrowth” often end up being debates, even if the aim would be a dialogue. The purpose of this paper and presentation is to draw a map of the main arguments of some of the camps, with the hope of improving the dialogue. Discussion on sustainable wellbeing is often carried along two main...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Back to the future: a debate among socialists at the dawn of industrialism

By: Hatice Çıvgın

Presentation by Hatice Çıvgın The beginning of the 19th century is considered as the dawn of industrialism, economics and socialism. When J. B. Say proposed the concept of industrialism, Charles Fourier, the father of socialism, immediately challenged the term. Similarly, Simond de Sismondi was another thinker who contested the concept. Later, however, in this era, industrialism became the...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Economic values, capital accumulation and degrowth

By: Mikael Malmaeus

Presentation by Mikael Malmaeus Historically, value theories used to be at the heart of critiques of capitalism. However, contemporary economists rarely focus on value theories, and the labor theory of value has not been discussed in relation to macroeconomic growth or in the context of degrowth. In this article it is theoretically and empirically demonstrated that economic values at the...

Scientific paper • 2015

Does slow growth lead to rising inequality? Some theoretical reflections and numerical simulations

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Social justice; Inequality; Macroeconomics; Stock flow consistent modelling; Savings; Investment

Scientific paper • 2015

Imaginaries of Hope: The Utopianism of Degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis, Hug March

economic growth, limits, scarcity, scale, utopias

Interview • 2015

Die Grenzen der Megamaschine: Globale Krisen und der Kampf um echte Demokratie

By: Fabian Scheidler, David Goeßmann

Your browser does not support the video tag. Mit Fabian Scheidler, Buchautor ("Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation"), Mitbegründer von Kontext TV Kontext-TV über den Beitrag: Nach mehrjähriger Recherchearbeit hat Kontext-TV-Redakteur Fabian Scheidler sein Buch "Das Ende der Megamaschine. Geschichte einer scheiternden Zivilisation" vorgestellt. David Goeßmann...

Misc • 2015

Ich tausch nicht mehr / Ich will mein Leben zurück - Theorie & Praxis von nichtkommerziellen Projekten

By: Unbekannt

Über die Broschüre auf gegenseitig.blogsport.de: Ein kleines Netzwerk „nichtkommerzieller“ Projekte versucht sich am konsequenten Entkoppeln von Geben und Nehmen. Die Sachen die produziert oder organisiert werden, werden nicht verkauft und auch nicht anderweitig vertauscht. Sie werden ohne irgendeine Gegenleistung einfach abgegeben. Auf 150 Seiten stehen zahlreiche Erfahrungen aus der Praxis...

Misc • 2015

Is there a growth imperative in capitalism? A commentary on John Bellamy Foster (part I)

By: Giorgos Kallis

Introduction: John Bellamy Foster recently published an excellent essay on ‘Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition’. Foster advocates a steady-state (eco)socialism. He argues that “a system of meeting collective needs based on the principle of enough is obviously impossible in any meaningful sense under the regime of capital accumulation.” He continues: “capitalism as a system...

Misc • 2015

Can there be green socialist growth? A commentary on John Bellamy Foster (part II)

By: Giorgos Kallis

Introduction: In the first part of this commentary, I argued that there is no necessary incompatibility between capitalism and a steady or declining economy. Such a state, unstable (and ugly) as it could be, would increase the likelihood of the rise of a social force that will transform and transcend capitalism. In this essay, I want to ask instead whether an end of capitalism would necessarily...

Misc • 2015

Vom Kapitalismus ohne Wachstum zur Marktwirtschaft ohne Kapitalismus

By: Karl Georg Zinn

Der Verlag: Kurztext: Die verschiedenen Krisenprozesse der Gegenwart verweisen auf die Grenzen der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise. Es ist höchste Zeit, über diese hinauszudenken. Die kapitalistische Produktionsweise setzte die seit Beginn der Zivilisationsgeschichte institutionalisierten Ausbeutungs- und Spaltungsverhältnisse fort, wenn auch in einer durch die Industrie veränderten Form der...