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Scientific paper • 2016

Understanding capitalism. Marx meets degrowth

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

Vulnerability and Energy Economy Nexus at the Sector Level: Analysis of Czech Republic

By: Mikuláš Černík

Today's fossil fuel dependent economies face two main problems. Firstly they must reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to avoid dangerous consequences of climate change. Secondly, they must cope with reduced availability, increasing cost and price volatility of fossil primary energy sources, most importantly of oil and gas due to declining conventional sources and geopolitical...

Scientific paper • 2016

Water, Traditional Cultures and a Degrowth Future

By: Rajni Bakshi

Water, Traditional Cultures and a Degrowth Future: the quest for a steady-state economy By Rajni Bakshi Degrowth as a concept does not sit well in most societies today. But water is a key to fostering new imaginaries and new visions that will be not merely acceptable but inviting. By 2040 an estimated 33 countries, including USA, China and India, will face severe water scarcity. India has a...

Presentation • 2016

What are the merits of economic contraction, is degrowth the way forward? The pros and cons of economic growth

By: Piet Depuydt, Geert Gielens, Marius de Geus, Brent Bleys

At 19:30 on Tuesday the 19th April, deBuren held a debate which looked at the primacy of economic growth and it and degrowth’s relative merits. About the debate: In the last few years, the financial crisis and climate change have led more and more people to question the primacy of economic growth. Proponents of degrowth advocate a totally different sort of economics and a complete change...

Misc • 2016

Inside the Green Economy - Promises and Pitfalls

By: Barbara Unmüßig, Lili Fuhr, Thomas Fatheuer

The economic and ecological bases of a general prosperity are in danger, the gap between rich and poor is widening. The concept of the Green Economy offers a new model, based primarily on large-scale technological solutions. But the Green Economy cares little about politics, barely registers human rights, does not recognize social actors and suggests the possibility of reform without conflict....

Presentation • 2016

Capitalism and (de)growth

By: Susan Paulson, Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, György Pataki

The discussion of the plenary "Capitalism and (de)growth" is outlining the key degrowth challenges, such as the internal contradictions of capitalism, exiting growth and comparing the transition experiences and potentials in the parts of the world where they originate from. Speaker: Jennifer Hinton, Daniel O`Neill, Susan Paulson Facilitator: György Pataki 31/08/2016, Degrowth Conference...

Report • 2016

Degrowth Bewegung

By: Hertz 87,9

Link zum Audiobeitrag Unsere Welt steuert immer mehr in eine Richtung, in der das Wohlergehen der Menschen in den Hintergrund gestellt wird. Degrowth, oder auch Postwachstum, ist eine Wirtschaftsweise und Gesellschaftsform, die das ändern möchte.

Misc • 2016

Degrowth Audiobook

By: Robert Orzanna

This is a collaborative podcast project to create an audio book version of the book “Degrowth: A vocabulary for a new era” for various languages. English Deutsch Espanol Francais

Misc • 2016

movum - Heft 10: Effizienz und Suffizienz

By: Uwe Schneidewind, Elmar Altvater, Nico Paech, Felix Werdermann

Heft 10 des Magazins movum> zum Thema Effizienz und Suffizienz Kurzbeschreibung: Effizienz allein bringt keine substanzielle Reduktion von Ressourcenverbrauch, Emissionen und Abfällen. Wir brauchen auch Suffizienz – die Befreiung vom "Immer mehr". Und zwar nicht individuell, sondern als Politik. Das Heft als PDF

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 – Can technologies help to reduce the physical and human degradation in transition towards a degrowth society?

By: Pasqua L'Abbate

Presentation by Pasqua L'Abbate This article outlines the role that technology has to play in order to enable human beings to move towards a degrowth society. Against the background of the problems we face today, the authors E.E. Schumacher, N.Georgescu-Roegen and others have been re-examined. This work also explains the concepts of entropy and emergy and the “fourth” principle of...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Between the enlarged scope of neoliberalism and the socialism that mutates: The sustainability dilemma in China’s overheated market for ‘fictitious commodities’

By: Xiaorui (Rae) Wang

Presentation by Xiaorui (Rae) Wang Basing on Polanyi’s (cf. 2002 [1944], 1957) insights that are particularly pertinent to the arguments that have centred ecological economics, this paper sets out to investigate the Chinese context within which this kind of trade-offs have been made. The findings indicate that, the so called “socialist market economy” in China implies above all the State’s...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - From capitalist accumulation to a solidarity economy

By: Barbara Muraca

Presentation by Barbara Muraca Starting from a critique to Growth as a major driver of our economies, the consequences it brings along, from environmental impacts to control over the marginalized, and as the mono-culture of our times, Muraca develops its limits and shows the alternatives beyond Capitalism. She explores what it means living in a society where basic needs services are valued and...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - On degrowth in the South: The Case of India

By: Alex Jensen

A thorough and detailed overview of the socioeconomic situation in India and the extent to which the Degrowth discourse can be extended in countries beyond the Global North. The speaker explores the aftermath of the neoliberalization of India: from GDP and billionaires growth to the extreme wealth gap alongside increasing inequality, unemployment, extreme air pollution, fossil fuels...

Presentation • 2016

Degrowth Conference Budapest, 2016 - Are we there yet? How practitioners, multipliers and the public perceive the status and perspectives of a new economy.

By: Jana Gebauer

The presentation shows what needs to be done in the movement in order to achieve more visibility and, more importantly, feasibility. In the same framework, tools like multipliers and institutions should be embraced to foster cooperation and convergence in projects and approaches for an alternative economy.

Misc • 2015

Growth Based Economies or Collapse

By: Sam Bliss

Published with a Creative Commons license. Sam Bliss, a graduate of ecological economics from the USA, explains with the help of orange juice what is going wrong in today's economy. In an encouraging way he displays different possible solutions for the problems he describes and thereby names essential parts of degrowth.

Scientific paper • 2015

Zukunftsfähige Unternehmen in einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft

By: Dirk Posse

Vom Buchrücken: Das auf Expansion beruhende sozio-technische Gesellschaftssystem ist nicht zukunftsfähig und bedarf einer grundlegenden Transformation. Angesichts ausbleibender Erfolge bisheriger Nachhaltigkeitsbemühungen hat sich das Bild einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft entwickelt, verstanden als Suchprozess einer Transformation hin zu einer kleineren Ökonomie mit geringerem...

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

The growth imperative revisited: a rejoinder to Gilányi and Johnson

By: Mathias Binswanger

Abstract: In Binswanger (2009) it was shown that in a simple circular flow model of a pure credit economy, positive growth rates are necessary in the long run in order to enable firms to make profits in the aggregate. If the growth rate falls below a certain positive threshold level, firms will make losses. Certain aspects of this model are challenged by the papers of Zsolt Gilányi and Reeves...

Scientific paper • 2015

More growth? An unfeasible option to overcome critical energy constraints and climate change

By: Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Margarita Mediavilla, Carlos de Castro, Óscar Carpintero, Luis Javier Miguel

Renewable limits, Fossil fuel depletion, Global warming, System dynamics, Peak oil, Scenarios

Scientific paper • 2015

Flourishing Within Limits to Growth

By: Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Søren Nors Nielsen, Federico M. Pulselli, Daniel A. Fiscus, Simone Bastianoni (ed.)

The publisher: Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model. The book describes how nature uses three growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in...