The Journal of Cleaner Production will be issuing a special volume on the topic of technology and degrowth and is looking for interesting scientific contributions. Abstracts of 400 to 500 words can be submitted until 31 August 2015. The special volume aims to both provide 1) a state of the art selection of current discussions of the role of technology within Degrowth in academia and practice and 2) a deepened reflection on technologies with the aim to specify perspectives and to overcome their entrenchment. The full call for papers can be accessed here
.One argument of those who defend growth is that growth is the natural and inevitable course of the economy. Liberated from governmental or other restrictions, and left to their own powers, entrepreneurs will make an economy grow, as they are endlessly inventive in growing their own incomes. Growth is then seen as the natural product of a free, ‘self-regulated market’. The destiny of the economy...
Wer schon einmal vom guten und hierarchiefreien Leben für alle entsprechend individuellen Bedürfnissen und Fähigkeiten in gegenseitiger Wertschätzung und Kooperation geträumt hat, kann jetzt dazu beitragen, dass dieser Traum konkret wird: Vom 21. bis 25. Juni treffen sich im Kulturkosmus Müritz in Lärz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, rund 1000 Menschen, um "Miteinander offen vertrauensvoll und ema...
In a recent article with Stefan Drews, we discussed why degrowth might be an unfortunate name and slogan for the alternative economics movement. We listed several expressions that could possibly be better, but we were also upfront about their disadvantages. Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives. For an asse...
