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Interview • 2018

Paech: "Wir sollten nur 20 Stunden arbeiten"

Einleitung: Niko Paech propagiert ein Wirtschaftssystem, das zur Versorgung des menschlichen Bedarfs nicht auf Wachstum angewiesen ist. Im DW-Gespräch erläutert der Ökonom die Vorteile für Mensch und Umwelt.

Misc • 2018

Work in a World Without Growth

By: Riccardo Mastini

A fixation with growth in economics has seen GDP increase in proportion to environmental damage. As planetary limits draw ever closer and are even being surpassed, such a model cannot be sustained. Riccardo Mastini explains how a job guarantee could open up the way to a sustainable economic model.

Report • 2018

Sufficiency: Moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency

By: Riccardo Mastini, Friends of the Earth Europe

“Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency” suggests introducing hard limitations to unsustainable trends—in particular to overconsumption—and putting emphasis on distributional justice. Seven chapters written by sustainability and economics experts plus a foreword by Janez Potočnik (Co-chair of the International Resource Panel and former European Commissioner for the Environment)...

Misc • 2018

Freie Geister

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Der große utopische Science-Fiction-Klassiker in kongenialer Neuübersetzung. Ursula K. LeGuins ›Freie Geister‹ ist eine der bedeutendsten Utopien des 20. Jahrhunderts, in der die Systemfrage – Kommunismus, Kapitalismus oder Anarchismus? – mit aller Deutlichkeit gestellt wird. Ältere Ausgaben sind unter den Titeln ›Planet der Habenichtse‹ und ›Die Enteigneten‹ erschienen. Der einzige Ort auf...

Misc • 2018

A economia contra os limites da Terra: o decrescimento sustentável é a solução

By: Ana Poças Ribeiro

Limitar salários é uma forma de reduzir desigualdades, de reduzir consumo insustentável e especulação e de repensar a sociedade. O que é preciso para uma vida digna e que nos preencha? (Da autora)

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 - Workshop Economic Models

By: Simone d'Alessandro, Daniel Mügge, Bjorn Döhring, Arthur Turrell, Nicole Dewandre

Chair: Alojz Peterle, MEP (EPP) Panellists: Simone d’Alessandro (University of Pisa), Daniel Mügge (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Professor of Political Arithmetic), Bjorn Döhring (European Commission, Head of Unit for Economic situation, forecasts, business and consumer surveys), Arthur Turrell (Co-Author of “An Interdisciplinary Model for Macroeconomics” (Oxford Review of Economic Policy,...

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Future of Work

By: Viktorija Smatko-Abaza, Monika Kiss, Pascal Lokiec, Aida Ponce

Chair: Guillaume Balas, MEP (S&D) Panellists: Viktorija Smatko-Abaza (Principal Adviser, European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion), Monika Kiss (European Parliamentary Research Service), Pascal Lokiec (Sorbonne University, Author of “Il faut sauver le droit du travail !”), Aida Ponce (European Trade Union Institute, Senior Adviser)

Presentation • 2018

Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Wages & Collective Bargaining

By: Esther Lynch, Lars Vande Keybus

Chair: Marisa Matias, MEP (GUE/NGL) Panellists: Esther Lynch (ETUC, Confederal Secretary), Lars Vande Keybus (FGTB)

Scientific paper • 2017

Change put to work. A degrowth perspective on unsustainable work, postwork alternatives and politics

By: Maja Hoffmann

keywords: unsustainability, critique of work, postwork alternatives, politics, degrowth, sustainability science

Scientific paper • 2017

Work ethic and degrowth in a changing Atlantic Canada

By: Karen Foster

Keywords: Degrowth, employment, work, work ethic, sociology, anthropology, rural

Scientific paper • 2017

Radical dematerialization and degrowth

By: Giorgos Kallis

Keywords: degrowth, dematerialization, decarbonization

Misc • 2017

The labor(s) of degrowth

By: Stefania Barca

Teaser on entitle.org: In the first post of the Ecology after capitalism series, Stefania Barca argues that degrowth has potential to facilitate the discussion and practice of an emancipatory ecological class-consciousness, provided it engages with the centrality of work and class in the transition to a post-carbon and post-capitalist paradigm.

Misc • 2017

Imperiale Lebensweise

By: Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen

Zur Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur in Zeiten des globalen Kapitalismus Der Verlag: Haben wir die Zeiten des Imperialismus nicht längst hinter uns gelassen? Wenn man erwägt, in welchem Maße sich der Globale Norden nach wie vor an den ökologischen und sozialen Ressourcen des Globalen Südens bedient, rücken die Begriffe »Globaler Kapitalismus« und »Imperialismus« wieder näher zusammen. Unsere...

Scientific paper • 2017

The Monetized Economy Versus Care and the Environment: Degrowth Perspectives On Reconciling an Antagonism

By: Corinna Dengler, Birte Strunk

KEYWORDS: Degrowth, gender inequality, sustainability, work sharing, gender working time equality, caring economy

Scientific paper • 2017

The Labor(s) of Degrowth

By: Stefania Barca

KEYWORDS: Degrowth, labor, alienation, ecofeminist political economy

Misc • 2017

Conversations on Degrowth: Exploring the Slow Movement

By: Lyudmyla Khrenova, Zhanara Yessenova, Riya Raphael

Information about the project: In this conversational blog, we seek to explore slow movement in order to gain insight, challenge some of the norms and enjoy a conversation over tea! We aim to link degrowth and “slow” and explore whether slow could be compatible with degrowth and in what way.

Misc • 2016

Die Paradoxie des nachhaltigen Wachstums

By: Rotherbaron

Teaser: Zwischen Green New Deal und Abwrackprämie: Über Glück, Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlstandskonzeptionen einer postmaterialistischen Gesellschaft Aus dem Text: . . . Wie man sieht, bleibt die Definition dessen, was unter “Glück” zu verstehen sei, in der bhutanischen Verfassung absichtlich vage. Keinesfalls beansprucht der Staat, den Einzelnen vorzuschreiben, auf welchem Weg sie glücklich...

Report • 2016

A Dutch City Is Experimenting With Giving Away A Basic Income Of $1,000 A Month

By: Ben Schiller

From the text: . . . Utrecht has applied to the Dutch central government to conduct a welfare experiment called "See What Works." This will compare the effect of four types of basic income plus a control. The first will give people about $980, ask nothing in return, and allow as much work as people want (a pure version of basic income). The second will require people to volunteer—say, to do...

Misc • 2016

Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster

By: Samuel Alexander

From the text: . . . Others have shown why limitless growth is a recipe for disaster. I’ve argued that living in a degrowth economy would actually increase well-being, both socially and environmentally. But what would it take to get there? In a new paper published by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, I look at government policies that could facilitate a planned transition beyond...

Misc • 2016

THUR_16:30h // WORK Out of the Box!

By: Green European Foundation

Event "Work out of the box!" at the Degrowth Week, organized by the green european foundation. Part of the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Event is about sustainable work for all in a post-growth society. What means working beyond the job? What do we value as work? How do we value it? Degrowth 2016 - English youtube...