Strategy • 20.03.2026
Jason Hickel’s intervention on strategies for achieving desirable futures argues for degrowth advocates to decamp to democratic socialism. He minimises degrowth to policies re-orienting production to satisfying people’s needs within Earth’s limits, and trivialises horizontalism as tiny prefigurative activities incapable of stopping capitalism dead in its tracks. Our horizontalism represents...
Strategy • 30.09.2025
As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political context.
Reviews • 13.09.2021
A year ago, in August 2020, we launched our jointly authored book Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (Pluto Press). ‘The book you hold in your hands’ states Jason Hickel of the University of London and author of Less is More 2020, ‘paints a picture of the new economy that lies ahead — an economy that enables human flourishing for all within planetary boundaries.’ Discussion about degrowth has exploded since then when a cluster of general interest books on degrowth appeared in 2020.
