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By: Andrew Dobson

Ophuls; closed world; political theory

By: Pankaj Mishra

Untertitel: Die Revolte gegen den Westen und der Wiederaufstieg Asiens Der Verlag: Nachdem die letzten Erben des Mogul-Reiches getötet und der Sommerpalast in Peking zerstört war, schien die asiatische Welt vom Westen besiegt. Erstmals erzählt der Essayist und Schriftsteller Pankaj Mishra, wie in dieser Situation Intellektuelle in Indien, China und Afghanistan eine Fülle an Ideen entwickelte...

By: Harald Welzer, Ernst A. Grandits

Harald Welzer im Gespräch über sein Buch "Selbst Denken - eine Anleitung zum Widerstand". Dabei geht es um Politik, sogenannte Alternativelosigkeit, Wirtschaft, Macht, Krisen, Veränderung und unsere Zukunft. In was für in einer Welt will ich leben und was kann ich dafür tun?

By: Barbara Muraca

Zusammenfassung: Der rumänische Ökonom Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen gilt als der Vater der ökologischen Ökonomik und als einer der schärfsten Kritiker der Mainstreamökonomik. Diese neoklassisch fundierte Ökonomik beruhe u.a. auf der Ausblendung von Zeit als einem kumulativen und unumkehrbaren Prozess und auf einer mechanistischen und atomistischen Auffassung von Natur, die den Prozess menschlicher...

By: Samuel Alexander

When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world. With no option but to build a self-sufficient economy with very limited energy supplies, this community set about creating a simpler way of life that could flourish into the deep future. Dete...

By: Hans Christoph Binswanger

Der Verlag: Im Wachstumsprozess weitet sich der wirtschaftliche Kreislauf zu einer Spirale aus, die im Aufstieg einem exponentiellen Pfad folgt. Um den Antrieb und die Möglichkeit zur Verfolgung dieses Wachstumspfads zu erklären, muss die Dynamik des Geldes, der Energie und der menschlichen Imagination deutlicher herausgestellt werden als es in der konventionellen ökonomischen Theorie der Fall ...

By: Anita Pelle

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: The current European crisis started as the infiltration of the global financial crisis. The real economy was hit badly by the sudden contraction of the financial sector. The European Commission’s recovery plan of 2008, followed by most member states at that time, built on the quick restoration o...

By: Geoffrey Garver

ecological law; planetary boundaries; principle of sustainability; wild law; right relationship; precautionary principle; supranationality; subsidiarity

By: Giorgos Kallis

Degrowth; Work; Metabolism; Institutions

By: Manjula S Salimath, Vallari Chandna

Alternate Logics, Degrowth, Sustainability

By: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Martina Vidovic, Anca M. Voicu

Pollution Haven Hypothesis, Porter hypothesis, European Union, Trade Flows

By: Hugo Carton

Debates about basic income inside the Degrowth movements are growing. The Momentum Institute analyses two proposal from the French Degrowth movement: Basic Income and Unconditional Autonomy Allowance suggested by the "Degrowth project" collective. > In French

By: Fatih Kaya

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Several studies investigate the relationship between government debt/deficit ratios and the real long-term interest rates, but the empirical evidence is not conclusive enough for consensus building. Evidence for statistically weak or mixed association is as much as the evidence for a strong posi...

By: Kent Klitgaard

heterodox political economy; political ecology; metabolic rift; monopoly capitalism; social structure of accumulation; second contradiction of capitalism; energy return on investment

By: Vincent Liegey, Stéphane Madelaine, Christophe Ondet, Anisabel Veillot

This interview was made by the French magazine S!lence. Three questions were asked to the members of the Collective « Un projet de Décroissance » (« A Degrowth Project » ) about the differencies, the complementarities, and the convergences between the Degrowth and Transition movements. > In French

By: Vincent Liegey

8 short videos, between 2 and 8 minutes long, about some basic facets of the degrowth movement: #1 Degrowth as a provocative slogan #2 Degrowth as concept of reappropriation of fundamentals of life #3 The physical limits to growth #4 Degrowth and the religion of Growth #5 Degrowth Project #6 History of Degrowth #7 Degrowth and the crises #8 About the book « A Degrowth Projet »

By: Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey presents degrowth in general and the book "A Degrowth Project". He first gives a definition of degrowth, then he presents the book and it's topic which is unconditional autonomy allowance (UAA) and at last he speaks about 3 scenarios of how to implement such an UAA.

By: Panos Petridis

Economism, autonomy, Greece, crisis, democracy, degrowth, transformation

By: Miriam Lang, Eduardo Gudynas, Margarita Aguinaga, Dunia Mokrani, Alejandra Santillana, Alberto Acosta, Edgardo Lander, Ulrich Brand, Maristella Svampa, Raúl Prada, Elisa Vega, Eduardo Gudynas

The publisher: Latin America is at the forefront of thinking on how to build a new sustainable economy that rejects consumerism and extractivism. An exciting compilation on new ideas such as Buen Vivir that are reshaping the global debate on how to live in harmony with each other and nature. Contents > Prologue: Crisis of civilisation and challenges for the left - Miriam Lang > Debat...

By: Michalis Theodoropoulos, iliosporoi network

Published with a Creative Commons license, iliosporoi.net. Iliosporoi network: Documentary "Another World" about the grassroots initiatives in Greece that form another world right here right now, away from the crisis and capitalism (Greek narration, English subtitles in captions).