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Scientific paper • 2019

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Unraveling the claims for (and against) green growth

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Can the global economy grow indefinitely, decoupled from the Earth's limitations? Science 22 Nov 2019, Vol. 366, Issue 6468, pp. 950-951

Interview • 2019

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Maybrit Illner (ZDF) vom 26. September 2019: "Abschwung, Jobs und Klimarettung – riskieren wir unseren Wohlstand?"

By: Nina Treu, Peter Altmaier, Robert Habeck, Carolin Roth, Mario Gutmann, Karl Haeusgen

Deutschlands Wirtschaft rutscht ab. Die Industrie leidet unter US-Handelskriegen, Brexit-Angst und schwächerer Weltwirtschaft. Stehen wir vor einer der üblichen Konjunkturkrisen oder vor einem epochalen Umbruch? Klimaschutz und Digitalisierung zwingen die Unternehmen zu Abbau und Umbau der alten Arbeitsplätze, zum „Neu-Erfinden“ ganzer Produktionszweige. Wen erreicht die Krise zuerst? Für...

• 2019

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Against economics

By: David Graeber

A book review by David Graeber of Robert Skidelsky's new book Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

Scientific paper • 2019

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The economic and energy impacts of a UK export shock: comparing alternative modelling approaches

By: Lukas Hardt, Karen Turner, Paul Brockway, Grant Allan, John Barrett, Peter McGregor, Andrew Ross, Kim Swales, Marco Sakai

This study investigates how an increase in exports (a key pillar in the UK Industrial Strategy) could impact energy and industrial policy by comparing two types of energy-economy models. Achieving the targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions set out in the UK Climate Change Act will require a significant transformation in the UK's energy system. At the same time, the government is pursuing...

Report • 2019

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Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability

By: Jonathan Barth, Timothée Parrique, François Briens, Christian Kerschner, Joachim H. Spangenberg, Alejo Kraus-Polk, Anna Kuokkanen

Is it possible to enjoy both economic growth and environmental sustainability? This question is a matter of fierce political debate between green growth and post-growth advocates. Considering what is at stake, a careful assessment to determine whether the scientific foundations behind this decoupling hypothesis are robust or not is needed. This report reviews the empirical and theoretical...

• 2019

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Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth

By: Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Alexander Paulsson, Stefania Barca

Since the 1970s, the degrowth idea has been proposed by scholars, public intellectuals and activists as a powerful call to reject the obsession of neoliberal capitalism with economic growth, an obsession which continues apace despite the global ecological crisis and rising inequalities. In the past decade, degrowth has gained momentum and become an umbrella term for various social movements whi...

• 2019

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L’économie de la nature

By: Alain Deneault

L’expression «économie de la nature» a surgi dans le vocabulaire des sciences au XVIIIe siècle bien avant que le néologisme «écologie» ne s’impose à nous, plus d’un siècle et demi plus tard. Chez Carl von Linné, Gilbert White ou Charles Darwin, l’économie de la nature désigne l’organisation des relations entre les espèces au vu du climat, du territoire et de leur évolution. Cette économie pense...

• 2019

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A Green New Deal for an ecological economy. Introducing a series of proposals for a truly transformative GND

By: Sam Bliss, Leah Temper

This essay is the first in a series of articles that aim to inform the GND through the lens of ecological economics. The series will feature short position papers by students of the Economics for the Anthropocene program, a three-university collaboration to train graduate students in ecological economics, as well as by other invited experts. These short articles will focus on thematic issues...

Report • 2019

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The Green New Deal for Europe: a blueprint for Europe's just transition

By: Teresa Anderson, Stefania Barca, Grace Blakeley, Friedrich Bohn, Sam Bright, Giacomo D'Alisa, Nick Dearden, Nicoletta Dentico, Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues, Dirk Ehnts, Skender Fani, Julia Fish, Charlotte Hanson, Jason Hickel, Nick Jacobs, Giorgos Kallis, Tessa Khan, Mat Lawrence, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Emanuele Leonardi, Ruth London, Riccardo Mastini, Bill McKibben, Julian Brave NoiseCat, David Powell, Jérémy Rodrigues, Jakob Schäfer, Christoph Schneider, Giovanna Sissa, Isaac Stanley, Will Stronge, Sean Sweeney

Europe today confronts two crises. The first is an economic crisis, with rising levels of poverty, insecurity, and homelessness across the continent. The second is a climate and environmental crisis, with severe consequences for Europe’s front-line communities and even more perilous ones on the horizon. Both crises are the products of Europe’s political decisions, and they are closely bound t...

Scientific paper • 2018

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Macroeconomics Without Growth - Sustainable Economies in Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian Theories

By: Steffen Lange

How can we organize our economies without growth? "Macroeconomics Without Growth' provides a comprehensive understanding of how non-growing economies can be sustainable. With this book, Steffen Lange brings new momentum into the debate on post-growth, degrowth and steady state economies. The book delves deep into economic theory to understand how a macro-economy can operate without growth. By a...

Presentation • 2018

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First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - De las economías de la guerra a la economía del común

By: Andrea Neira

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Jueves por Andrea Neira: "De las economías de la guerra a la economía del común. Desafío y disputas del sujeto neoliberal desde las nuevas configuraciones de las FARC en Colombia hoy"

Presentation • 2018

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First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - La economía industrial no es circular sino entrópica

By: Joan Martinez Alier

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Jueves por Joan Martínez Alier: "La economía industrial no es circular sino entrópica"

Presentation • 2018

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First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Decrecimiento o aceleración?

By: Humberto Beck

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Martes por Humberto Beck: "¿Decrecimiento o aceleración? Miradas críticas sobre los modelos de desarrollo dominantes, luchas ecoterritoriales e imaginarios alternativos"

Presentation • 2018

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First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Ecological micro-economics: reimagining the institutional firm as an agent of change

By: Caleb Gingrich Regehr

How could the production-organizing institution(s) of the economy be reimagined so that maintaining ecological integrity becomes an integral goal and outcome of their operations?

Presentation • 2018

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First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - The post Wiindigo, regenerative economy

By: Winona LaDuke

Conferencia de la Plenaria del Miércoles por Winona Laduke: "The post Wiindigo, regenerative economy"

Report • 2018

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Towards a socio-ecological transformation of the economy

By: Stephan Lutter, Fred Luks, Sigrid Stagl

Background report for the Growth in Transition Conference "Europe's Transformation: Where People Matter" in Vienna, 14-15 November 2018

Presentation • 2018

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Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Money, Debt and Interest Rates in a Post-Growth Economy

By: Fran Boait, Josh Ryon-Collins, Thorsten Guthke

Chair: Molly Scott-Cato, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Fran Boait (Positive Money, Executive Director), Josh Ryan-Collins (UCL Institution for Innovation and Public Purpose, Head of Research), Thorsten Guthke (Association of German Public Banks, VÖB)

Presentation • 2018

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Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Sustainable Fiscal Consolidation

By: Elisabeth Hege, Gaël Giraud, Marco Buti

Chair : Philippe Lamberts, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Elisabeth Hege (IDDRI, Governance and financing of sustainable development), Gaël Giraud (French Development Agency, senior economist), Marco Buti (European Commission, Director General of DG EcFin)

Presentation • 2018

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Post-Growth Conference, Brussels 2018 – Workshop Internalizing Externalities

By: Clive Spash, Denis Bouget, Anne Bucher, Stefan Ulrich Speck

Chair: Philippe Lamberts, MEP (Greens/EFA) Panellists: Denis Bouget (European Social Observatory, European Trade Union Institute, Emeritus Professor of Nantes University), Clive Spash (WU Vienna University), Anne Bucher (European Commission, Chair of the Scrutiny Regulatory Board), Stefan Ulrich Speck (European Environment Agency, Projet manager (sustainability assessments))

Presentation • 2018

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First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Las biorrefinerías y los límites de la economía circular

By: Graciela Carrillo

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las posibilidades y límites que ofrecen las biorrefinerías como una alternativa que se presenta en el marco de la economía circular.