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Scientific paper • 2012

Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements

By: Joan Martinez-Alier

Ecological Economics, Social Metabolism, and Political Ecology

Misc • 2012

The Wealth of the Commons

By: Silke Helfrich, David Bollier (Ed.)

Collection of 73 essays that describe the potential of the commons in conceptualizing and building a better future.

Misc • 2012

Manetti Lesen oder vom Guten Leben

By: P.M.

Roman in dem das Gute Leben thematisiert wird.

Misc • 2012

Liberation from Excess: The road to a post-growth economy

By: Niko Paech

The publisher: After a stressful week at work, we all feel we sometimes deserve a treat too: perhaps the latest smartphone, an iPad, or a flatscreen television. Before we know it, we are stuck in the vicious circle of consumer desire and time poverty. And that is not all: the constant demand for "more" is causing raw materials to disappear and driving environmental destruction forward. The...

Misc • 2012

Befreiung vom Überfluss: Auf dem Weg in die Postwachstumsökonomie

By: Niko Paech

Herausgeber_innen: Noch ist die Welt nicht bereit, von der Droge »Wachstum« zu lassen. Aber die Diskussion über das Ende der Maßlosigkeit nimmt an Fahrt auf. Der Umweltökonom Niko Paech liefert dazu die passende Streitschrift, die ein »grünes« Wachstum als Mythos entlarvt. Nach einer vollen Arbeitswoche möchte man sich auch mal etwas gönnen: ein neues Auto, ein iPad, einen Flachbildfernseher....

Misc • 2012

Der FUTURZWEI-Zukunftsalmanach 2013

By: Harald Welzer, Stephan Rammler (Hrsg.)

Untertitel: Geschichten vom guten Umgang mit der Welt Verlag: "›Wir werden aktiv gewesen sein!‹ - Wege in eine enkeltaugliche Zukunft Das 21. Jahrhundert braucht Visionen – Geschichten von besseren Lebensstilen, Geschichten über eine gelingende Zukunft. Die Entwicklung einer zukunftsfähigen Gesellschaft wird schon heute von erfolgreichen Projekten vorangetrieben: Verantwortungsbewusste...

Scientific paper • 2012

Growth, degrowth and climate change: A scenario analysis.

By: Peter A. Victor

Economic growth, Climate change, No growth, Degrowth, Scenarios

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

Degrowth and the supply of money in an energy-scarce world

By: Richard Douthwaite

Energy; Money supply; Debt; Regional currencies; Climate change

Scientific paper • 2012

Long-run welfare under externalities in consumption, leisure, and production: A case for happy degrowth vs. unhappy growth

By: Simone D'Alessandro, Ennio Bilancini

Degrowth; Endogenous growth; Consumption externalities; Leisure externalities; Production externalities

Scientific paper • 2012

Critique of Degrowth and its Politics

By: David Schwartzman

From the paper: The degrowth program is highly problematic because of its failure to analyze the qualitative aspects of economic growth and its emphasis on the local economy without recognizing the urgency to address global anthropogenic change from a transnational political perspective. In particular, a major challenge humanity now faces is to rapidly implement a prevention program to avoid...

Art contribution • 2012

Digital museum of unneeded and questionable things

By: Corinna Burkhart, Can Decreix

From the text: “This museum was founded in 2012 when some people did not know where to put the fridge, which was unneeded and was taking needed space in the kitchen. So where to put it? Where does it belong? Of course, in the museum and so the museum of unneeded and questionable things was born. . .”

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

What economic democracy for degrowth? Some comments on the contribution of socialist models and Cuban agroecology

By: Sébastien Boillat, Julien-François Gerber, Fernando R. Funes-Monzote

Abstract: While degrowth is about reducing energy and material flows in the economy while sustaining basic human needs, capitalism fosters the opposite trend. How then is degrowth to be implemented on a large scale? In line with different critical intellectual traditions, we argue that degrowth is unlikely to occur within an economy based on capital accumulation and free market of assets. Our...

Scientific paper • 2012

De-growth: Do you realise what it means?

By: Ted Trainer

Abstract: The implications of de-growth are much more far reaching and radical than seems to be appreciated. It is important to start with a brief consideration of the magnitude and nature of the global predicament, because when this is understood it becomes clear firstly that consumer-capitalist society cannot be made sustainable or just, secondly that a satisfactory and viable post-capitalist...

Scientific paper • 2012

How to rebuild democracy, re-thinking degrowth

By: Onofrio Romano

Abstract: Can the degrowth project contribute to rediscovering the meaning of democracy? Can the establishment of a real democracy lead to building a degrowth society? And last, has the project of a “democratic degrowth” a real chance to succeed, from a political point of view? If not, how should degrowth be re-thought to foster democracy? These are the questions entertained in this opinion...

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

Economic democracy: A path for the future?

By: Nadia Johanisovaa, Stephan Wolf

Abstract: As opposed to political democracy and its attempts at power control in the public sector, the concentration of economic power, and its antidote, the concept of economic democracy, has received much less attention. In the paper, we first offer a definition of economic democracy as a “a system of checks and balances on economic power and support for the right of citizens to actively...

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...