From a provocative activist slogan to an academic concept towards policy making This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first international degrowth conference in Paris (2008). This event introduced the originally French activist slogan décroissance into the English-speaking world and international academia as degrowth. I want to take stock of the last decade in terms of conference...
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...
Der Wachstumsdiskurs muss im redlichen Sinne die Gründe erwägen, die für oder gegen Wachstum und bestimmte Wachstumsformen sprechen. Er hat darüber hinaus aber auch unvermeidbares Wachstum zu berücksichtigen und zu klären, wie damit in zumutbarer Weise umzugehen ist. Ich glaube, dass der Begriff der Subsistenz eine Orientierung dazu bietet. Im Beitrag erläutere ich, was ich [...]