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Misc • 2010

Designing financial institutions for a shrinking or no-growth economy

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...

Presentation • 2010

Degrowth with an aging population; increasing leisure for improving the environment. The key role of pensions and their funding

By: Gjalt Huppes

Presentation and transcription of an oral Session by Gjalt Huppes 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" Degrowth with an aging population from Goteo / Platoniq

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...

Position paper • 2010

Transcending the depiction of market and non-market labour practices and harnessing community engagement: some implications for de-growth

By: Colin C. Williams, Richard J. White

Presentation and transcription of an oral Session by Colin C. Williams and Richard J. White 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: In response to the global economic, environmental and social equity...

Misc • 2010

Economic De-growth and the Steady state

By: Brian Czech

Input-text of an oral Session by Brian Czech at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Beyond Sustainable Development: Sustainable Degrowth towards a Steady-State" Introduction: This session is concerned with two primary questions: What is the relationship between economic degrowth and a steady state...

Misc • 2010

Measuring Progress: Indicators for Degrowth

By: Daniel W. O’Neill

A steering paper for the “Indicators for Degrowth” workshop by Daniel W. O’Neill 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". Introduction: The question that this workshop is intended to address is: “Do we need to...

Misc • 2010

Sociology and de growth: visions of social change, entropy and evolution in a way down era

By: Ernest Garcia

Presentation and transcription of an oral Session by Ernest Garcia at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Beyond Sustainable Development: Sustainable Degrowth towards a Steady-State". Abstract: In the last few years, different sources point to a same message: industrial civilization has entered an...

Presentation • 2010

Pathways to sustainable Development: Co-optimizing Economic Welfare, Employment, and Environment

By: Nicholas A. Ashford

Presentation by Nicholas A. Ashford at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Beyond Sustainable Development: Sustainable Degrowth towards a Steady-State".

Presentation • 2010

Functional Economy: A New Way for a "Sustainable Degrowth?"

By: Jacques Lauriol

Presentation by Jacques Lauriol at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Beyond Sustainable Development: Sustainable Degrowth towards a Steady-State".

Position paper • 2010

The limits to capital accumulation - Radical analysis and strategy

By: Frederik Blauwhof

Transcription of an oral session by Frederik Blauwhof at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity on in Barcelona the topic "Degrowth, Capitalist Institutions and Democracy". Abstract: Infinite economic growth on a finite planet is not possible. But economic history shows that capitalist economies periodically lapse into crisis...

Misc • 2010

Growth, Degrowth, and the right to a ‘good life’: A scrutiny of the ethical assumptions in the growth-degrowth debate with respect to distributive justice

By: Barbara Muraca

Transcription of an oral session by Barbara Muraca at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Degrowth, Capitalist Institutions and Democracy". Abstract: The aim of the paper is a critical scrutiny of the ethical assumptions laid down by advocates of growth and degrowth with respect to distributive...

Position paper • 2010

Variants of De Growth and Democratization within Democracy: A Conceptual Relationship

By: Konrad Ott

Transcription of an oral session by Konrad Ott at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Degrowth, Capitalist Institutions and Democracy". Introduction: It is a philosophical task to clarify concepts and to determine conceptual relationships. This task shall be performed in this paper. The relationship...

Position paper • 2010

Implementing Degrowth: An evolutionary economic perspective

By: Pascal van Griethuysen

Presentation and transcription of an oral session by Pascal van Griethuysen at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Degrowth, Capitalist Institutions and Democracy". Abstract: Reorienting the current unsustainable and inequitable path and implementing the necessary degrowth process in an...

Misc • 2010

How to correct wrong information about economic growth

By: Roefie Hueting

Transcription of an oral session by Roefie Hueting at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Growth is unsustainable. Long live degrowth?". Abstract: Economic growth is generally defined as increase of national income (NI) (or GDP) as a measure of production. However, according to the subject matter...

Position paper • 2010

Change without fear

By: Christer Sanne

Transcription of an oral session by Christer Sanne at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Growth is unsustainable. Long live degrowth?".

Misc • 2010

Kritik des Regierens - Schriften zur Politik

By: Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault beschreibt Politik nicht als gesonderten Wirklichkeitsbereich, sondern als ein Kräfteverhältnis. Politik ist für ihn zunächst die Fortsetzung des Kriegs mit anderen Mitteln. Später rückt er den Begriff des Regierens ins Zentrum und untersucht Technologien und Rationalitäten der Menschenführung. Er entwirft keine Theorie des Staates, seine Analysen zielen vielmehr auf eine Kritik...

Misc • 2010

Systemtransformation - Eine Einführung in die Theorie und Empirie der Transformationsforschung

By: Wolfgang Merkel

Das Buch ist die erste systematische Einführung in die politikwissenschaftliche Transformationsforschung und bietet zweitens umfassende empirische Analysen der Demokratisierung nach 1945 und der Systemwechsel in Südeuropa, Lateinamerika, Ostasien und Osteuropa. Es werden in einem ersten theoretischen Teil Kriterien entwickelt, die eine klare begriffliche Fassung und Abgrenzung von politischen...

Presentation • 2010

Interrogations and proposals - some inconvenient questions about degrowth

By: Joaquim Sempere

Presentation of an oral session by Joaquim Sempere at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Interrogations and proposals - some inconvenient questions about degrowth". Degrowth; Proposals and Questions from Goteo / Platoniq

Presentation • 2010

Long run Welfare under Externalities in Consumption, Leisure, and Production: A Case for Happy De-Growth vs. Unhappy Growth

By: Simone D'Alessandro, Ennio Bilancini

Transcription and presentation of an oral session by Ennio Bilancini and Simone D'Alessandro at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Long run Welfare under Externalities in Consumption, Leisure, and Production: A Case for Happy De-Growth vs. Unhappy Growth". Happy Degrowth vs Unhappy Growth from...

Presentation • 2010

Cities, De-Growth and The Big Five

By: Richard Register

Transcription of an oral session by Richard Register at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Cities, De-Growth and The Big Five".