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Scientific paper • 2013

Political Theory for a Closed World

By: Andrew Dobson

Ophuls; closed world; political theory

Scientific paper • 2013

Degrowth or regrowth?

By: Mark Whitehead

From the text: If you ask people what they remember most about the financial crisis of 2008 you are likely to hear phrases such as the subprime bubble, toxic assets, Bear Stearns or Northern Rock. As an environmentalist, the main focus of my recollections is slightly different. What I remember most vividly was the desperation with which central bankers and politicians sought to immediately...

Scientific paper • 2013

Wirtschaft im Dienst des (guten) Lebens: Von Georgescu-Roegens Bioökonomik zur Décroissance

By: Barbara Muraca

Zusammenfassung: Der rumänische Ökonom Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen gilt als der Vater der ökologischen Ökonomik und als einer der schärfsten Kritiker der Mainstreamökonomik. Diese neoklassisch fundierte Ökonomik beruhe u.a. auf der Ausblendung von Zeit als einem kumulativen und unumkehrbaren Prozess und auf einer mechanistischen und atomistischen Auffassung von Natur, die den Prozess menschlicher...

Scientific paper • 2013

On the Increase of Social Capital in Degrowth Economy

By: Valeria Andeoni, Stefano Galmarini

Keywords: social capital; reciprocity work; degrowth economy; theoretical approach; review

Scientific paper • 2012

Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy

By: Daniel W. O'Neill

Indicators, Degrowth, Steady state economy, Conceptual framework

Scientific paper • 2012

The Growth Paradigm: A critique

By: Gareth Dale

Discusses the “Origins of the growth paradigm” by going into history, starting in medieval times going over to industrialisation, including the “invention of scarcity” and the “change from a world of custom and common land to one based on absolute private property”, “a redefinition of human needs and desire” and economic theory. Further “the criticisms of political economy for its neglect of...

Scientific paper • 2012

Variants of de-growth and deliberative democracy: A Habermasian proposal.

By: Konrad Ott

Abstract: This article intends to determine the relationship between variants of degrowth strategies and prospects for further democratization. In a first step, four variants of degrowth policies are distinguished. In a second step, a Habermasian approach to deliberative democracy will be outlined which will be enriched by some proposals for environmental democracy. Finally, a position on...

Scientific paper • 2012

Democracies with a future: Degrowth and the democratic tradition

By: Marco Deriu

Abstract: The interrogation of a possible connection between degrowth and democracy inspires some questions of political epistemology. Is degrowth a socio-economic project which can be simply proposed as an “issue” and a “goal” in the democratic representative system, without discussing forms and processes of the political institutions themselves? Is the degrowth perspective fully compatible...

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth, the past, the future, and the human nature

By: Ernest Garcia

Abstract: In the last years, different sources point to a same message: industrial civilization has entered an overshoot mode, the natural limits to growth have been already surpassed. This frontier does not wait for us in the future; it already belongs to our past. If population and the economy are truly beyond the limits, then current visions and theories of social change would be deeply...

Scientific paper • 2012

Towards a fair degrowth-society: Justice and the right to a ‘good life’ beyond growth

By: Barbara Muraca

Abstract: A critical scrutiny is presented of the ethical assumptions of growth and degrowth theories with respect to distributive justice and the normative conditions for a ‘good human life’. An argument is made in favor of Sen's and Nussbaum's ‘capabilities approach’ as the most suitable theoretical framework for addressing these questions. Since industrialization economic growth has played a...

Scientific paper • 2012

Growth and democracy: Trade-offs and paradoxes

By: Mauro Bonaiut

Abstract: The present paper attempts to reveal the relationships between some long-run systemic processes (on the economic, ecological, social and symbolic levels) and the theme of democracy. Starting from the distinction between democracy and autonomy, the paper focusses on its main issue: the trade-off between growth and autonomy. Continual growth can be produced, and indeed has been produced...

Scientific paper • 2012

Growth, A-Growth or Degrowth to Stay within Planetary Boundaries?

By: Giorgos Kallis, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh

a-growth, degrowth, environmental sustainability, gross domestic product (GDP), growth paradigm

Scientific paper • 2012

Can the Left Escape Economism?

By: Serge Latouche

From the text: . . .To exit from the impasse of a growth society involves finding ways of building an alternative world of voluntary sobriety and frugal abundance, a world we believe possible. But to do this also implies abandoning the well-trodden paths of ‘‘critical’’ thought, the inherited ways of thinking that are fundamentally responsible for all the facets of the Left. Inventing new ways...

Scientific paper • 2012

Degrowth: Tools for a Complex Analysis of the Multidimensional Crisis

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

From the paper: This article intends first of all to offer a contribution to the analysis of the current multidimensional crisis and to help construct this shared view; at the same time, it reveals why orthodox economic prescriptions, of both neoclassical and Keynsian inspiration, cannot lead to a lasting solution to the crisis. Special Issue: Degrowth Symposium Capitalism Nature Socialism,...

Scientific paper • 2012

Is Socially - Just Degrowth Compatible with Capitalism?

By: Karen Bell

Abstract: The degrowth movement challenges the paradigm of economic growth, and promotes a dual agenda of ecological sustainability and social justice. However, critics argue that, within a capitalist system, degrowth will ultimately undermine social justice by increasing poverty and inequality, as businesses collapse and jobs are lost. The recent economic recession in the wealthier...

Scientific paper • 2012

The Parallel World: Substituting Physical Capi tal with Social Capital and Human Capital?

By: Chiung Ting CHANG

growth model, human capital, low income country, social capital

Scientific paper • 2012

Overpopulation and the Vicious Circle Principle

By: Craig Dilworth

Abstract: In my book "Too Smart for Our Own Good", I present an ecological theory intended to explain human evolution and development, and I apply that theory to all major aspects of our actual evolution and development over the past seven million years. In this paper, I shall summarize the treatment that overpopulation in particular receives in Too Smart.

Scientific paper • 2012

AGRICULTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ULTRASOCIALITY

By: John Gowdy, Lisi Krall

Abstract: The adoption of agriculture was perhaps the most momentous transformation in human history. It set into motion forces that changed our species from being a relatively minor player into one that dominated local ecosystems and is now changing the biophysical characteristics of the entire planet. We argue that this transformation can be understood as a leap to ultrasociality. After...

Scientific paper • 2012

The Macroeconomics of De-growth. Can a De-growth Strategy be Stable?

By: Dina Padalkina

De-growth, Sustainability, Consumption and Production patterns, Ecological and Environmental economics, Post-Keynesian economics, Kaleckian Model, Taxation and Distribution, Policy, Regulation

Scientific paper • 2012

What shall degrow? Proposals of bottom-up degrowth of capacity to produce and consume.

By: Francois Schneider

Capacity to produce and consume; Rebound Effect; Limiting Factors; Economic Size; Degrowth Policy; Frugal Innovation; Debound Strategies; Multidimensional crisis.