Ten years ago G20 leaders committed a staggering $5 trillion of public funds to rescue the banks and restore growth during the largest economic contraction in modern times. The economies of an unprecedented number of countries — and their associated environmental footprints — experienced very low growth over the decade that followed. In a recent study published in the Journal of Cleaner Prod...
Von Angelika Zahrnt „Postwachstum“ war 2010, als unser Buch Postwachstumsgesellschaft (Seidl, I./Zahrnt, A.) erschien, noch ein völlig unbekannter Begriff. Heute ist Postwachstum zwar in vielen Ländern (erzwungene) Realität, aber diese Situation wird offiziell als vorübergehendes Phänomen eingeschätzt, das mittels der üblichen wachstumsfördernden Maßnahmen überwunden werden soll – mit staatlic...
By Brototi Roy In recent years, the debate around universal basic income has gained much popularity and coverage. The many successful models of basic income, both universal and targeted such as Alaska, Iran and Brazil (Bolsa ) along with an active movement in many European countries to adopt pilot experiments, made researchers and social workers in India enthusiastic to try out similar studies...