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By: Silke Mahnkopf-Praprotnik

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: Mit der Finanz- und Weltwirtschaftskrise ab 2007 wurden auch viele europäische Länder, vor allem Länder der europäischen Währungsunion, mit in den Abwärtsstrudel gerissen. Die Schwächen eines bis dahin forcierten Wirtschafts- und Wachstumsmodells wurden offensichtlich und gaben Anlass, das bis...

By: Niall Farrell

Paper presented at the Conference “New economic concepts in the current European crises“. Abstract: We analyse the distributional impact of financing renewable energy policies via levies on domestic consumption, focussing on Ireland’s flat-rate public service obligation (PSO) levy. We find that switching Ireland’s flate-rate charge to a unit-based regime results in a trend of reduced regress...

By: Extraenvironmentalist, Juliet Schor

[ Juliet Schor // Working Less ] from Extraenvironmentalist on Vimeo. Interview with Juliet Schor made during the International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas in Montreal 2012. Juliet Schor is talking about the "fast fashion model", which is about an intensification of resource use and the short lifetime of goods. Further she talks about changes of consumption habits with the financi...

By: Saamah Abdallah, Sam Thompson

Poster by Saamah Abdallah and Sam Thompson from the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Differential relations between income and aspects of well-being".

By: Marko Ulvila, Jarna Pasanen

Poster by Marko Ulvila and Jarna Pasanen at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Class, Degrowth and Transition to a Just and Sustainable Society".

By: Linda Nierling

Poster by Linda Nierling at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Changing the Relationship Between Paid and Unpaid Work – a Sustainable Working Model in the Perspective of Degrowth".

By: Elena Masferrer-Dodas, Luis Rico García -Amado, Victoria Reyes­-García

Poster and Transcription of an poster session by Elena Masferrer-Dodas, Luis Rico García -Amado and Victoria Reyes­-García at the Second International Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Barcelona with the title "Does consumption of market goods relates to well being? An empirical test in the Bolivian Amazon". Link to the poster

By: Stephen A. Marglin

What determines the rate of growth, the distribution of income, and the structure of relative prices under capitalism? What, in short, makes capitalist economies tick? This watershed treatise analyzes the answers to these questions provided by three major theoretical traditions: neoclassical, neo-Marxian, and neo-Keynesian. Until now, the mutual criticism exchanged by partisans of the different...

By: Die Grünen

Bericht vom Forum Arbeitszeitpolitik der GRÜNEN Aus dem Vorwort: Die GRÜNEN im Bundestag haben in den vergangenen Monatenvielfältige Initativen ergriffen, die sich auf die Arbeitszeitproblematik und die gewerkschaftlichen Forderungen zur Verkürzung der Arbeitszeit konzenztrieren. Dabei lagen die Aktivitäten der GRÜNEN im Medienecho eher am Rande der von relevanten "klassischen" Formationen (...