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By: Jens Mayer

Was haben systematische Steuervermeidung durch sämtliche DAX-Konzerne, Josef Ackermanns Geburtstagsfeier im Kanzlerinnenamt oder die Legalität von Hochfrequenzhandel und Schattenbanken mit „sozialer Marktwirtschaft“ noch zu tun? Jens Mayer legt zunächst in der Analyse den Finger in die Wunde der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft, die nur noch zum Teil als Realität existiert, danach skizziert er konkrete...

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider, Frank Adler, Jana Flemming, Barbara Sennholz-Weinhard, Ellen Ehmke

Special session How could counter-hegemony become realistic, which is necessary for a democratic transition? Our thesis: We need a bundle of “non-reformist reforms” (Gorz) which tie on everyday social needs and problems (time pressure, fears of future or descent, deficient recognition etc.) and propose alternative ways of their satisfaction or solution. The chances and barriers of this strat...

By: James Flexner

An archaeologist's perspective on degrowth.

By: Cemal Karakas, Stanislas Jourdan, Sophie Swaton, Jeroen Van Ranst, Ludovic Voet

Chair : Guillaume Balas, MEP (S&D) Panellists: Dr Cemal Karakas (Policy Analyst, European Parliamentary Research Services, European Parliament), Stanislas Jourdan (Head of Positive Money Europe, Former Coordinator of the European Citizens’ Initiative for Basic Income and co-Founder of the French Movement for Basic Income), Sophie Swaton (University of Lausanne, Faculty of Geosciences and E...

By: TiinaHeikkinen

Degrowth, Dynamic equilibrium, Externalities, Voluntary simplicity, Welfare, Sharing, Collaborative consumption, Basic income

By: Katja Kipping

Translation of a keynote-speech by Katja Kipping held at the 16th BIEN Congress in Seoul 2016. Video of the original speech (german language)

By: Joseph Cederwall

Introduction: Anthropologist Jason Hickel believes basic income could be part of the solution to this problem of the pervasiveness of the growth mentality. He presents UBI as forming part of a strategy of “planned de-growth,” which he believes will “increase human well-being and happiness while reducing our economic footprint.”

By: Alf Hornborg

Keywords: Resilience, money, degrowth, capitalism

By: Alf Hornborg

From the text: The solution requires us to recognise that the operation of markets and money is socially constructed. The rules of the game can be rewritten. To acknowledge the extent to which the destiny of human society and the biosphere has been delegated to the mindless logic of objects like money and technology is like snapping out of a delusion. To fathom the implications of this delusion...

By: Elena Hofferberth, Ulrich Brand, Edward Skidelsky

Teil 1 Teil 2 Diskussion nach der Einführung von Dagmar Paternoga und den Vorträgen von Edward Skidelsky und Ulrich Brand bei der Auftaktveranstaltung der Konferenz "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Degrowth" am 19. Mai 2016 in der Katholischen Akademie Hamburg.

By: Ulrich Schachtschneider

Beitrag zur Diskussion um Zeitsouveränität bei der Konferenz "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Degrowth" am 20. Mai 2016 in der Katholischen Akademie Hamburg.

By: Katja Kipping

Vortrag von Katja Kipping beim 16. BIEN-Kongress in Seoul 2016.

By: Tuuli Hirvilammi, Ingo Stamm, Aila - Leena Matthies, Kati Närhi

Work sharing, work time reduction, basic income and job guarantee are often referred ideas in degrowth-literature as alternatives to present models of work and income. Also various grassroots innovations, such as local organic food networks or community currencies are examples in which people are already developing production and consumption structures based on community empowerment and wellbei...

By: Thomas Frisius

It is already evident that current present-day industrial nations can offer a basic income without risking the collapse of the economy. Even the supply with an unconditional basic income (UBI) is imaginable. However, it is not obvious whether an UBI sufficing for more than the subsistence consumption can be realized in a degrowth economy. A simple mathematical model is applied to estimate the f...

By: Ronald Blaschke

Einführung in die Idee des Bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens bei der Konferenz "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen und Degrowth" am 20. Mai 2016 in der Katholischen Akademie Hamburg.

By: Ronald Blaschke

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um die Grundeinkommensbewegung geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowoh...

By: Ronald Blaschke

Manuskript: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen auf einen Blick für Degrowth-AktivistInnen und -ForscherInnen - Vortrag von Ronald Blaschke beim Kongress "Bedingungs­loses Grundeinkommen und Degrowth" in Hamburg, Deutschland (19–20. Mai 2016). Inhalt des Vortrags 1. Die Definition des Mindesteinkommens 2. Die Definition des Grundeinkommens 3. Das Prinzip Grundeinkommen, oder: Wofür ein Grundei...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Manuskript und Video: Was ist Degrowth? - Wachstumskritik konkret - Vortrag von Matthias Schmelzer beim Kongress "Bedingungs­loses Grundeinkommen und Degrowth" in Hamburg, Deutschland (19–20. Mai 2016). Degrowth auf einen Blick für Grundeinkommen-AktivistInnen und -ForscherInnen mit Matthias Schmelzer Gliederung des Vortrags: 1. Degrowth - was ist das? 2. Was ist überhaupt Wachstum? U...

By: Jason Burke Murphy

From the text: . . . Giorgios Kallis’ keynote presentation steered me towards my provisional answer to these questions. He supports a basic income alongside the promotion of universal access to low-consumption versions of public transportation, education, and health. He sees this as a way of shrinking the destructive aspects of our economy, driven by capital, and increasing other parts of econo...

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 in the country...