By: Roberta Sassatelli

From the text: In his widely known work La société de consommation, the French cultural critic Jean Baudrillard thus summed up contemporary society: ‘Just as medieval society was balanced on God and the Devil, so ours is balanced on consumption and its denunciation’. The notion of the consumer, contested as it has always been, has itself become an important cultural category. Especially from th...

By: Remigio Masobello

Premise: The acceptance of ecology, but in particular of profound ecology, is the premise for degrowth in our habits and in new architecture. If we consider ourselves ecologists (and it is hard not to for those with even just a little common sense), we must truly respect our environment, nature as a whole and our planet. Such respect will lead us to the path of degrowth. Of course we know that...

By: Linda Nierling

Keywords: Degrowth; Unpaid work; Recognition; Sustainability; End of work; Qualitative case study research

By: Francesco Mele

From the text: The possible answers are virtually infinite. Here I’d like to suggest one that may appear simplistic: education signifies providing tools to make people live better. True, this means that any argument based only on quantity is instantly incomplete: the idea that education is a matter of accumulating notions and skills (“the more I know the better I’ll be”) risks being inadequate,...

By: Chiara Ortolani

Keywords: Urban growth, connectivity, self-organization, resilient relations, road network

By: Giorgos Kallis, Joan Martinez-Alier, Christian Kerschner

Degrowth; Money; Debt; Happiness; Employment; Property; Ecological macroeconomics

By: Simone D'Alessandro, Ennio Bilancini

Degrowth; Endogenous growth; Consumption externalities; Leisure externalities; Production externalities

By: Gustav Horn, Hans Diefenbach

Vortrag von Gustav Horn und Hans Diefenbach im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Wohlstand ohne Wachstum?" des DGB 2011 an der TU Berlin. Beschreibung Gustav Horn wendet sich in seinem Vortrag Schlüsselbegriffen der Debatte um die Realisierbarkeit einer Postwachstumsgesllschaft zu. Wie definieren wir Wachstum und welches Handwerkszeug steht uns zur Verfügung um Wachstum zu messen? Was untersc...

By: Meinhard Miegel

Das Wachstum der Wirtschaft ist zur Ersatzreligion unserer Gesellschaft geworden. Vielen gilt es als Voraussetzung für Wohlstand, persönliches Glück und ein funktionierendes Gemeinwesen. Doch was ist, wenn es kein Wachstum mehr gibt? Was kann, was sollte an seine Stelle treten, um uns ein erfülltes Leben zu ermöglichen? Auf diese drängenden Fragen gibt Meinhard Miegel, einer der renommiertesten...

By: Hans Diefenbacher, Rol, Zieschank

Was macht das BIP? Nicht nur Wohl und Wehe der Republik, auch unser aller Glück und Unglück scheinen von diesem Kürzel abzuhängen: Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt ist bis heute die heilige Kuh der herrschenden Ökonomie, die Politik misst ihre Erfolge an seinen Wachstumsraten. Seit Jahren gilt es als der Indikator für Wirtschaftskraft und Wohlstand schlechthin – dabei ist es blind für vieles, was unser...

By: Sustainable Austria

Ein Mitmachbuch in dem die eigenen Glücks- und Lebensvorstellungen thematisiert werden.

By: Petra Pinzler

Der Verlag: Der wichtigste Indikator für das Wohlergehen einer Gesellschaft war bislang das Wirtschaftswachstum, gemessen am Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Doch inzwischen weiß man: Mehr Wachstum macht die Menschen eines Landes nicht automatisch glücklicher. Mindestens so wichtig wie das wirtschaftliche Wohlergehen sind für das Lebensglück Faktoren wie Bildung, Gerechtigkeit, Gesundheit, eine intakte Um...

By: Jeroen van den Bergh

Short-interview with Jeroen van den Bergh from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona.

By: Wolfgang Fellner, Engelbert Stockhammer

Poster by Wolfgang Fellner and Engelbert Stockhammer from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title “Economic Growth and Sustainable Welfare - "The Welfare Puzzle"”.

By: Simão Dias

Poster by Simão Dias from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title “Sustainable Economic Welfare in Portugal (1950-2006)”.

By: Saamah Abdallah, Sam Thompson

Poster by Saamah Abdallah and Sam Thompson from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Differential relations between income and aspects of well-being".

By: Michela Guerini, Marco Boffi

Poster by Michela Guerini and Marco Boffi at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Less consumption more well-being - evidences from the policies of Italian Virtuous Municipalities Association".

By: Alexandru Tofan, Costica Mihai, Mihai Talmaciu, Mioara Borza

Poster by Alexandru Tofan, Costica Mihai, Mihai Talmaciu and Mioara Borza at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Implications of economic growth theories on quality life from Romanian rural area".

By: Elena Masferrer-Dodas, Luis Rico García -Amado, Victoria Reyes­-García

Poster and Transcription of an poster session by Elena Masferrer-Dodas, Luis Rico García -Amado and Victoria Reyes­-García at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Does consumption of market goods relates to well being? An empirical test in the Bolivian Amazon". Link to the poster

By: Iris Borowy

Transcription and presentation of an poster session by Iris Borowy at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Degrowth Episodes and Public Health: Lessons from the Past?".