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By: Alexander Amberger

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung: Die Grenzen ungebremsten Wirtschaftswachstums wurden nach 1970 auch von der DDR-Opposition diskutiert. Im Ergebnis entstanden u.a. drei Öko-Utopien, die bei aller Sperrigkeit erstaunlich relevante Fragen aufwerfen: Wolfgang Harichs «Kommunismus ohne Wachstum?» (1975), Rudolf Bahros «Die Alternative» (1977) und Robert Havemanns «Morgen» (1980). (Aufgenommener Vortrag)

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Degrowth and history - Economics, sustainability, power" mit Matthias Schmelzer, Lorenzo Fioramonti und Iris Borowy. Der Bericht besteht aus 3 Teilen: Teil 1, Teil 2, Teil 3 Aus dem Bericht:. . . Solange man meint, Ökonomie und Herrschaft trennen zu können, indem man der Wirtschaft für besser erachtete Alternativen per Über...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Economic history; Economic growth; GDP; Externalities; International organizations; Capitalism

By: Adelheid Biesecker, Uta von Winterfeld

Zusammenfassung: In den reichen kapitalistischen Ländern wird die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich immer größer. In den geopolitisch zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnenden sog. BRICS-Staaten (Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China, Südafrika) bildet sich eine wohlhabende bürgerliche Klasse heraus, die sich deutlich von der Masse der Armen abhebt. Und in vielen anderen Ländern des globalen Südens deutet sic...

By: Barbara Muraca, Schattenblick

Interview mit Barbara Muraca im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Interview: . . . BM: Ich glaube, das hängt wirklich davon ab, wie man Degrowth versteht. Degrowth ist sehr heterogen. Das ist eine Stärke, kann aber auch eine Schwäche sein. Wenn man aus Degrowth einfach eine Botschaft von individuellem Verzicht, einem anderen Konsum oder Suffizienz macht, ist das definitiv ...

By: Wayne Ellwood

Abstract: The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by progressives as the only possible solution for our economic and social woes. This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to tra...

By: Friederike Habermann

Der Verlag: Friederike Habermann legt den Schwerpunkt ihrer Erinnerungen an die Globalisierungsbewegung auf jene Zeit, die das Ende vom »Ende der Geschichte« einläutete: von Francis Fukuyama als endgültiger Sieg des Kapitalismus ausgerufen, machten die 1990er Jahre aus Bewegungen Nichtregierungsorganisationen und aus Kämpfen Runde Tische. Doch beginnend an den Rändern dieser Erde entstand mit ...

By: Niko Paech, Joan Martinez-Alier, Mauro Bonaiuti, Francois Schneider, Elisabeth von Thadden

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Joan Martinez-Alier, Francois Schneider, Niko Paech, Mauro Bonaiuti Facilitation: Elisabeth von Thadden From the conference programme: This panel brings together four different traditions of degrowth: decreixement/social and sustainable degrowth...

By: Federico Demaria, Giacomo D'Alisa

Recording of an introductory course held at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Federico Demaria and Giacomo D'Alisa from the French-Spanish organisation Research and Degrowth give an introduction to degrowth. The presentation is based on the introduction to the book "Degrowth. A vocabulary for a new era." and discusses...

By: Oliver Richters, Susan Krumdieck

Abstract: History of society is strongly influenced by the energy supply available and energy is an important economic production factor. It's coupled with extraction of natural ressources and the emission of pollutant particles and heat, surpassing the ability for regeneration of our ecosystems. Society has to face the question how to reduce energy demand. Transition engineering offers a roadm...

By: Lukasz Pancewicz

Abstract: Despite relatively mild effects of the world financial and economic crisis on Central and Eastern European cities, in the long run they face similar challenges that its western counterparts - falling birthrates and ageing populations, growing pressure of global economic competition that push for lower wages and increasing job insecurity as well as significant environmental challenges....

By: Maria Markantonatou

Abstract: The presentation examines two discourses of growth critique that arose during the crisis of the Keynesian growth model in the 1970s and during the current economic crisis respectively. It analyzes in particular how these discourses deal with questions of labor, population and society in the context of the two crises. Compared are the debates surrounding the publication of The Limits t...

By: Pier Luigi Tosi

Abstract: Mechanism is at the origin of the actual economical conception, based on endless growth. It is founded on Descartes's thought, with its strong distinction between mind and material world, continued by Bacon and Newton (as Latouche points out). Some years before and some years after Descartes, Montaigne and Spinoza respectively proposed significantly different conceptions. The French o...

By: Mark Lindley, Jan Otto Andersson

Abstract: A traditional, persistently mercantilist tendency of nation states has prevented them from cooperating sufficiently on macro-ecological problems of unprecedented urgency in the 21st century. The strength of this tendency is due historically to the fact that nation states, and the kind of patriotism which they engender, emerged together with internationally competitive capitalism. We p...

By: Gabriel Lombard

Abstract: Modern economists have accustomed us to put different things under the words wealth. Some authors of the past tackled more thoroughly the question of the nature of wealth and the correlated question of the role of money. We present three prominent examples of different periods but of a common spirit: the Physiocrat François Quesnay, in 18th. century France, the art-critic John Ruskin ...

By: Christoph Henning

Abstract: This short paper aims to reread a socialist classic that was written in Leipzig about 140 years ago. This particular book, that was very influential in its time, is re-read with a keen eye on its implications for the degrowth-debate. It is argued that classical socialism already implied some ideas of a post-growth. The awareness of this fact could be used to stir up a public debate an...

By: Timothée Duverger

organized modernity – environmentalism – self government – heteronomy

By: Iris Borowy

Abstract: The concept of sustainable development emerged in the early 1980s when existing theories proved unable to provide convincing models of how to satisfy the seemingly contradictory developmental demands of simultaneously increasing wealth, of keeping production and consumption within global environmental limits and of providing an equitable distribution of material goods and opportunitie...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Abstract: ‘Economic growth’ is widely regarded as a key goal of economic policy, not only across the political spectrum but also in all countries. How did the pursuit of growth become the essential goal of policy-making and a key priority taken for granted among social scientists, politicians, and the general public? This contribution to the special session "Degrowth and History" takes up this ...

By: Lorenzo Fioramonti

GDP; power; war; markets; economists; globalization