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Misc • 2017

From Growth to Degrowth: a brief history

By: Geneviève Azam

The post gives an overview over growth and degrowth since post WWII

Scientific paper • 2017

Climate change, happiness and income from a degrowth perspective

By: Giorgos Kallis, Filka Sekulova, Francois Schneider

Chapter in the "Handbook on Growth and Sustainability" Edited by Peter A. Victor and Brett Dolter About the book: This Handbook assembles original contributions from influential authors such as Herman Daly, Paul Ekins, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jeroen van den Bergh, William E. Rees and Tim Jackson who have helped to define our understanding of growth and sustainability. The Handbook also...

Report • 2017

Research & Degrowth Newsletter - May 2017

By: Research & Degrowth

Yet another editorial where the highlight is the high number of academic publications in degrowth. The multidisciplinary nature of these publications (technology, health, culture, happiness, extractivism, policies, transition, power, strategies, etc) explore the different roots, challenges and proposals of degrowth. This newsletter introduces the Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance (FaDA), a much...

Report • 2017

Moving Away From the Pro-Growth Economy

By: Erika Gavenus

Introduction: The current economic system being utilized and internalized relies on perpetual growth. It has long operated counter to the reality that we are confined to a finite planet with finite resources. Yet, this system continues to be practiced and promoted globally. As the environmental and social repercussions of disbelief in limits become increasingly clear, so does our need for a new...

Report • 2017

Degrowth: the history of an idea

By: Timothée Duverger

Abstract: Degrowth is a concept-platform with multiple meanings, and is shaped by five sources of thought: ecological, bioeconomical, anthropological, democratic, and spiritual. The word appeared in the 1970s, and imposed itself beginning in 2002 owing to the convergence between the criticism of development and the anti-advertising movement, initially in France but later across the European...

Art contribution • 2017

Imagining a Better World: The Art of Degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Introduction: We are living in an age of gross ecological overshoot - our demands on the planet far exceed what is sustainable. Wealth is extremely concentrated while billions go hungry. And with the world’s population heading toward 11 billion by the end of the century, something has to give. One response to these overlapping crises is degrowth. This movement argues that the developed regions...

Scientific paper • 2017

Degrowth as an ‘Aesthetics of Existence’

By: Samuel Alexander

"In recent decades the ‘limits to growth’ position has received a great deal of attention, mostly from economic and ecological perspectives (Meadows et al 2004, Daly 1996, Jackson 2009, Turner 2012). More recently, the degrowth movement has begun contributing an important range of new political and sociological analyses (see generally, D’Alisa, Demaria, and Kallis 2015), offering deeper insight...

Misc • 2017

What happened when Degrowth was discussed in the Catalan Parliament?

By: Antonio Turiel

Introduction: We recently carried a translation of an interview with Sergi Saladié who introduced a debate on degrowth into the Catalan parliament. Catalonia is very much in the news at the moment with the referendum held by the governing coalition and the violent repression by the Spanish State. We do not have a view on this matter, noting that independence has not had a majority following...

Misc • 2017

Why Branko Milanovic is wrong about de-growth

By: Jason Hickel

Introduction: Branko Milanovic has written a blog post titled “The illusion of degrowth in a poor and unequal world". He penned it, he says, following a conversation he had with a proponent of degrowth. As it turns out, that proponent was me. First, let me say that I have a lot of respect for Milanovic's work on inequality. I cite him all the time. But unfortunately he doesn't have a...

Interview • 2017

Our addiction to economic growth is killing us

By: Jason Hickel

Description by BBC Newsnight: In this Viewsnight, anthropologist Jason Hickel asks if economic growth really makes our lives better. He is the author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions.

Misc • 2017

Why less is more - There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy

By: Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel argues in an articel that Degrowth is the only chance to avoid catastrophic climate change

Misc • 2017

Degrowth: the case for a new economic paradigm

By: Riccardo Mastini

Introduction: Unbridled growth appears to be at odds with social well-being and environmental sustainability. How might we develop a model that reduces the imperative for growth while maintaining economic stability?

Scientific paper • 2017

Socialism Without Growth

By: Giorgos Kallis

Degrowth, eco-socialism, surplus, green growth

Scientific paper • 2017

Wicked Dilemmas of Scale and Complexity in the Politics of Degrowth

By: Stephen Quilley, Kaitlin Kish

Highlights • Entanglement of socio-ecological systems is described from a historical perspective. • Entanglement of traditional growth economics, the sanctity of the sovereign individual and complexity is analysed. • We present five cherished norms and dimensions of progressive modernity and how limiting growth economic may change them. First Page Preview

Misc • 2017

Decolonizing the North, decolonizing the South: de-growth, post-development, and their cultural representations in Spain and Latin America

By: José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

Article by Luis I. Prádanos in the book Transatlantic landscapes - environmental awareness, literature, and the arts

Misc • 2017

Degrowth: Unterschiedliche Strategien, dieselben Kämpfe

By: Manfred Ecker

Degrowth (im deutschen als Postwachstum bezeichnet) nennt sich das Konzept einer Strömung innerhalb der Klimaschutzbewegung, die das Wirtschaftswachstums in den Industrienationen zulasten der Umwelt und des globalen Südens angreift. Aus sozialistischer Sicht hat diese Theorie wichtige Stärken und Schwächen. (Einführung) Vierter und letzter Teil einer Serie. Alle Artikel aus der Serie: Teil 1:...

Misc • 2017

John Bellamy Foster answers five questions about Marxism and ecology

By: Saral Sarkar, John Bellamy Foster

Introduction by Ian Angus March 30, 2017 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Climate & Capitalism – The Indian website Ecologise recently published John Bellamy Foster’s Foreword to my book Facing the Anthropocene. Commenting on Foster’s article, journalist and activist Saral Sarkar, who describes his views as eco-socialist, raised questions that challenge the...

Misc • 2017

Salidas del laberinto capitalista: decrecimiento y postextractivismo

By: Alberto Acosta

About the book: Review of the frameworks of degrowth and post-extractivism in the context of the global ecological crisis with particular reference to the fetish of economic growth and the extractivist economy in the Global South (and in Latin America in particular). ISBN 13: 9788498887792

Educational paper • 2016

Endlich Wachstum!

By: FairBindung, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie

Endlich Wachstum: Die Vereine Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie und Fairbindung e.V. haben gemeinsam mit dem Webportal „Endlich Wachstum! Bildungsmaterialien für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation" eine umfassende Methodensammlung aus über 100 Methoden veröffentlicht. Die Methoden regen auf vielfältige Weise dazu an sich mit Bedingungen unseres derzeitigen Wirtschaftens sowie möglichen...

Scientific paper • 2016

The Hegemony of Growth - The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

By: Matthias Schmelzer

German summary by the author, published on VÖÖ.de: Die Dominanz des Wachstumsgebots ist kaum zu übersehen. Es erscheint auf den Titelseiten der Zeitungen, spielt eine Schlüsselrolle in ökonomischen Analysen, und durchzieht politische Debatten, sowohl über Ländergrenzen als auch das politische Spektrum hinweg. Diese Priorität des Wirtschaftswachstums – die der Umwelthistoriker John McNeill...