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Social enterprises and non - market capitals: a path to degrowth?

By: Nadia Johanisova, Tim Crabtree, Eva Fraňková

Keynote by Nadia Johanisova, Eva Fraňková and Tim Crabtree at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona on the topic "Degrowth: are we exporting a Western idea? Does it make sense for the rest of the world?" Abstract: The aim of this paper is to look at the concept of the economy from a broad perspective and to...

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...

Presentation • 2010

Participative/direct democracy: What forms of 'deep' democracy for a society that degrows?

By: Désirée Lucchese, Rodney Lester

Poster by Désirée Lucchese and Rodney Lester from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Participative/direct democracy: What forms of 'deep' democracy for a society that degrows?".

Presentation • 2010

Democracy and degrowth: some conceptual issues and real-life experiences

By: Christos Zografos, Julien-François Gerber

Poster by Julien-François Gerber and Christos Zografos from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Democracy and degrowth: some conceptual issues and real-life experiences".

Scientific paper • 2008

Escaping from the economy: the politics of degrowth

By: Valerie Fournier

Citizenship, National economy, Public policy, Sustainable development

Misc • 2005

Modern Politics and Government

By: Alan R. Ball, B. Guy Peters

The Publisher: This substantially revised 7th edition of a classic text includes a new chapter on globalization and regionalization and broader coverage of democratic politics, interests and movements; of the media; of social and cultural influences on political behaviour and of public management. It has been systematically revised and updated throughout in the accessible down-to-earth style...

Position paper • 2004

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

By: David Graeber

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence . . . . But what if they didn't? This pamphlet ponders what that...

Educational paper • 2002

Demokratische Wirtschaftspolitik

By: Gebhard Kirchgässner, Bruno S. Frey

Das Lehrbuch liefert eine systematische Untersuchung der Auswirkungen von eigennutzorientiertem Handeln aller an der Wirtschaftspolitik beteiligten Entscheidungsträger, einschließlich der Regierung und der wirtschaftspolitischen Berater, und betrachtet die Wirtschaftspolitik aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Die Neuauflage berücksichtigt die neuesten Ansätze und die Weiterentwicklungen sowohl der...

Misc • 1992

Faktizität und Geltung - Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats

By: Jürgen Habermas

In den ersten beiden Kapiteln verfolgt Habermas das doppelte Ziel zu erklären, warum die Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns der Kategorie des Rechts einen zentralen Stellenwert einräumt und warum sie ihrerseits für eine Diskurstheorie des Rechts einen geeigneten Kontext bildet. Dabei geht es um die Herausarbeitung eines rekonstruktiven Ansatzes, der beide Perspektiven in sich aufnimmt: die der...

Scientific paper • 1985

Reflections on 'rationality' and 'development'

By: Cornelius Castoriadis, John Murphy

For some time now, 'development' has been simultaneously the motto and theme of the official and 'professional' ideology - as well as government policies. It is perhaps useful to recall briefly the genealogy of the notion. Text of a Conference paper given at Florence in 1974. First published in Esprit, May 1976. Reprinted (with a lengthy discussion, not  given here) in C. Mendes ed., le...