We at Research & Degrowth are repeatedly being told that our framing won't work. That we are preaching to the choir by the way we frame our proposals, and that we will never convince the broader public. So, here are our policy proposals re-framed in the language of the U.S. elections. Dedicated to all you framing aficionados out there. Oil-funded tax breaks Abolish all inc...
The picture above shows some of the statues decorating the northern entrance of the Corvinus University in Budapest where the recent Degrowth Conference took place. The building has not always been a university. It once was a place of trade, and the statues over the entrance depict virtues which, back then, were considered central to trade. Virtues like courage, faith, love and honesty. When di...
Seit einem viertel Jahrhundert ist eine zentrale Auswirkung der Globalisierung vor allem ein sich verschärfender Standortwettbewerb, der durch die geplante transatlantische Freihandelszone zwischen den USA und Europa (TTIP) weiter angeheizt wird. Es ist erklärtes Ziel aller Freihandelszonen, Markträume zu vergrößern und den Marktzugang ausländischer Unternehmen zu verbessern, also mehr Konkurrenz zu schaffen. So wird Konkurrenzfähigkeit [...]
