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.
Abolish all income tax on incomes lower than $50,000 dollars per year. Finance this tax break by establishing a sovereign carbon fund financed by charges to the oil, coal and natural gas industry and by a carbon fee on trade imports.
Make Friday a day off that we can dedicate to our families, friends and communities. Do not reduce salaries: same pay for four days of work. President Roosevelt did it during the Great Depression. This alone can create 10 million new jobs.
No bank should lend more than its deposits. Banks cannot be allowed to create money out of thin air, while all the rest of us have to work hard just to get by.
Each and everyone should have the freedom to choose how to live their lives free from illness, hunger or fear. Establish a permanent freedom income of $800 per month, for every American. Pay for the income like Alaska did with a sovereign carbon fund. If this is not enough, finance it with a sovereign capital fund, funded by a progressive fee on excessive capital.
Hard-working Americans should have the right to inhabit housing assets that are left unused for more than one year for the purpose of speculation.
In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth. How to live better with less? This novel project enhances new critica...
Während meiner Zeit an der Universität wurde ich im Rahmen eines Workshops zum Thema „Resourcenknappheit“ mit folgender Grafik konfrontiert: Die Grafik beschreibt wie Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Umwelt voneinander abhängen. Spezieller Augenmerk liegt auf dem Machtverhältnis zwischen den einzelnen Einheiten: Ohne die Gesellschaft kann keine Wirtschaft existieren und ohne die Umwelt kann keine Gesellschaft existieren. Pavan Sukhdev [...]
Wir haben die Leute von ausgeCO2hlt um ein Interview gebeten, welches sie uns in einer möglichen Zukunft geben, einer Zukunft ohne wachstumsfixierte Wirtschaftspolitik. Dazu schickten wir ihnen einige Fragen. Wir bekamen zwar kein Interview, dafür aber einen sehr schönen Text als Antwort. Damals, vor 20 Jahren, als der Klimagipfel in Kopenhagen spektakulär gescheitert war, fanden sich im Rhei...
