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Scientific paper • 2012

The True-Cost Economy: Toward a Model To End Cheater Economics, Ensure Fair Play, & Long-Term Survival

Abstract: Over the next century, communities worldwide will experience an unprecedented shift of weather with occasional extreme weather events (ecological spasms) resulting in economic spasms and occasional regional collapses. Concerned citizens and opinion leaders need to prepare before these eco-spasm collapses occurs. Far from being prepared, most opinion leaders and power brokers are not...

Scientific paper • 2012

Heterodox Political Economy and the Degrowth Perspective

By: Kent Klitgaard

From the introduction: . . . Ecological and degrowth economists need to take seriously the problems of unemployment and poverty if anyone is to listen to us. In an era where the primary demand of the electorate is “jobs, jobs, jobs,” ignoring the need of people to find steady and meaningful work will make those concerned only with living within nature’s limits appear callous just at the time...

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

Presentation • 2012

Décroissance Montréal/Montreal Degrowth - John Fullerton & Joshua Farley

By: Geoffrey Garver, Joshua Farley, John Fullerton

Décroissance Montréal/Montreal Degrowth - John Fullerton & Joshua Farley - 15 mai/May 2012 from Geoffrey Garver on Vimeo. Plenary session on "finance and degrowth" at the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012.

Interview • 2012

Ecological Economics

By: Joan Martinez-Alier, Extraenvironmentalist

[ Joan Martinez-Alier // Ecological Economics] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Joan Martinez-Alier made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Why has it taken so long until climate change and degrowth became topics? He talks about "Debt-ocracy" and the hope that the financial crisis can open up discussions about the real economy....

Interview • 2012

Rethinking Economic Growth

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Josh Farley

[ Josh Farley // Rethinking Economic Growth ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Josh Farley made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Josh Farley explains what money is, respectively where it comes from, as well as how debt works. He further says what degrowth means for him: a downscaling of the economy so it fits with the earth...

Scientific paper • 2012

Assessing sustainability on a degrowth perspective

By: Paula Inês Cosme Teixeira

Degrowth, Indicators, Sustainability Assessment, Policy goals, Policy instruments

Misc • 2012

Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?

By: Ulrich Brand, Asiye Öztürk, Meinhard Miegel, K.-H. Paqué · B. Jochimsen · M. O. Bettzüge · U. Schneidewind, Christian Kroll, Till van Treeck, Johannes Hoffmann, Gerhard Scherhorn, Nicole Rippin, Claus J. Tully, Christian Neuhäuser

bpb: Vor 40 Jahren veröffentlichte der Club of Rome den Bericht "Grenzen des Wachstums". Der Befund war alarmierend: Die herrschenden Produktions- und Lebensweisen industrialisierter Gesellschaften seien langfristig nicht tragbar. Auch die deutsche Politik beschäftigt sich intensiv mit den ökologischen Konsequenzen unseres Wirtschafts- und Wohlstandsmodells. So soll die Enquete-Kommission...

Interview • 2012

Energy Returns

By: Charles Hall

[ Charles Hall // Energy Returns ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Charles Hall made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Extraenvironmentalist about the video: Dr. Charles Hall of the Dept. of the SUNY-Environmental and Forest Biology describes the EROEI concept he developed along with the ideas behind his creation of the...

Interview • 2012

Montreal Degrowth Conference // Mini-Doc

By: Extraenvironmentalist

[ Montreal Degrowth Conference // Mini-Doc ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Voices of Speakers at the Degrowth Conference of the Americas in Montreal in 2012. Including Mary Evelyn Tucker, Joshua Farley, Bill Rees, Peter Victor, Michael M'Gonigle, Juliet Schor, Victoria Grant and David Suzuki.

Interview • 2012

Ecological Economics

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Peter Victor

[ Peter Victor // Ecological Economics] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Peter Victor made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Peter Victor is talking about economic growth today, it's history as well the history of its perception. Further he talks about the infrastructure of economic growth.

Interview • 2012

Creating Culture

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Janice Harvey

[ Janice Harvey // Creating Culture ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Janice Harvey made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Janice Harvey talks about culture and what it is. It is pre-reflective, it gives a frame for what people live in, for taking decisions etc.. Further she talks about how culture can change.

Report • 2012

Die Zukunft, die wir wollen: Eine feministische Perspektive

By: Christa Wichterich

HBS: Im Mittelpunkt der UN-Konferenz in Rio de Janeiro (Juni 2012) steht das Leitbild einer Green Economy. Sie soll einen Ausweg aus den globalen Klima-, Ernährungs- und Armutskrisen zeigen. Obwohl bereits vor 20 Jahren auf der ersten Rio-Konferenz Frauen als Schlüsselakteurinnen für den Umweltschutz und die Armutsbekämpfung genannt wurden, spielen ihre Vorschläge und ökofeministischen Ansätze...

Educational paper • 2012

Wachstum ohne Ende

By: Martin Eiermann

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung: Themenblätter im Unterricht Nr. 92 bpb: Wachstum ist der Treibstoff unserer Wirtschaft. Löhne, Renten, Investitionen, Staatsausgaben – alles hängt von unserer Fähigkeit ab, immer mehr zu produzieren und zu konsumieren. Doch was tun, wenn Wachstum teuer wird und Ressourcen zur Neige gehen?

Scientific paper • 2012

Planned economic contraction: the emerging case for degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Keywords: degrowth, uneconomic growth, threshold hypothesis, voluntary simplicity

Scientific paper • 2012

Ecological Economics, Degrowth, and Institutional Change

By: Lisi Krall, Kent A. Klitgaard

Keywords: Degrowth; Ecological economics; Evolutionary economics; Political economy; Economic surplus

Scientific paper • 2012

American passage: Towards a new economy and a new politics

By: James Gustave Speth

Keywords: Economy; Politics; Degrowth

Scientific paper • 2012

The economic and financial dimensions of degrowth

By: Damir Tokic

Keywords: Degrowth; Stock market; Deflation; Deleveraging

Scientific paper • 2012

Bona diagnosis, bona curatio: How property economics clarifies the degrowth debate

By: Pascal van Griethuysen

Keywords: Degrowth; Property economics; Capitalist rationality; Eco-social rationale

Report • 2012

Nutzen statt Besitzen - Auf dem Weg zu einer ressourcenschonenden Konsumkultur

By: Kristin Leismann, Martina Schmitt, Holger Rohn, Carolin Baedeker

Es gibt einen neuen Trend, der nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern weltweit Einzug hält: Gemeinschaftlicher Konsum heißt er und umfasst so unterschiedliche Praktiken wie Wohnungstausch, Kleidertauschparties, Autogemeinschaften, Gemeinschaftsgärten, Tauschringe für Werkzeuge, Drucker oder DVDs und vieles andere mehr. Das Time Magazin hat diese neue Konsumform sogar zu einer der zehn großen Ideen...