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By: Timothée Duverger

Abstract: Degrowth is a concept-platform with multiple meanings, and is shaped by five sources of thought: ecological, bioeconomical, anthropological, democratic, and spiritual. The word appeared in the 1970s, and imposed itself beginning in 2002 owing to the convergence between the criticism of development and the anti-advertising movement, initially in France but later across the European con...

By: Mauro Bonaiuti

Keywords: Involuntary degrowth; Promethean technologies; Declining marginal returns on innovation; Georgescu-Roegen bioeconomics; Complex system theory; TFP growth

By: Geneviève Azam

The post gives an overview over growth and degrowth since post WWII

By: Matthias Schmelzer, Iris Borowy, Gareth Dale, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Barbara Muraca, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Christophe Bonneuil, Andrea Westermann, Stephen Macekura, Jeremy L. Caradonna

The publisher about the book: The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the twenty-first century. Alarmed by declining growth rates in industrialized countries, climate change, and rising socio-economic inequalities, among other challenges, more and more people demand to look for alternatives beyond growth. However, so far these current debates about sustainability, post...

By: Norbert Nicoll

Norbert Nicoll liefert eine reichhaltige, kritische Darstellung der kapitalistischen Wachstumsidee. Er macht anschaulich, wie diese historisch entstanden ist, wie sie einen kleinen Teil Privilegierter reich gemacht hat und uns nun in eine Klima-, Energie- und Ressourcenkrise führt. In einer Tour de Force bringt er uns Fakten aus Ökologie, Ökonomie, Soziologie, Geologie, Geschichts- und Polit...

By: LE, Nhu Tuyen

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept was born in the 1980s in the United States and has been expanded throughout the world. CSA is a “concept describing a community-based organization of producers and consumers. The consumers agree to provide direct support to the local growers who will produce their food. The growers agree to do their best to provide a sufficient quantity and qual...

By: Gareth Dale

Gareth Dale reflects on how the lessons from history of the semi-periphery can be used for degrowth of tomorrow. Drawing from his understanding of the work of Karl Polanyi, Gareth will try to sketch Polanyi’s answers for the currently open degrowth challenges and issues raised at the conference. This media entry was a contribution to the special session „Polanyi, historical lessons, future ch...

By: Mauro Bonaiuti, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Mario Pansera, Pasi Heikkurinen, Lukáš Likavčan

This is the first of a planned ‘trilogy’ of sessions on the contentious relationship between degrowth and technology. It represents the first of three subthemes of a special issue on degrowth and technology, which is currently being edited for the Journal of Cleaner Production. The aim of this special session is to bring together different theoretical and historical perspectives on technology, ...

By: Gareth Dale, Mladen Domazet, Vincent Liegey, Alexandra Köves

Keynote speech by Gareth Dale and following panel discussion by Mladen Domazet, Vincent Liegey and Alexandra Köves at the 6th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Budapest in 2016. Degrowth 2016 - English youtube channel

By: Stephan Lorenz

Herausgeber_innen: Mit den Themen „Degrowth“ und „Postwachstum“ wurde in den vergangenen Jahren Wachstumskritik wieder auf die politische und wissenschaftliche Agenda gehoben. Die Vielfältigkeit der Debatten zu systematisieren, gelingt bislang nur unzureichend. Gründe dafür werden in diesem Beitrag diskutiert. Zum einen bleiben die Begriffsbestimmungen von Wachstum bzw. Wachstumskritik und der ...

By: Olivier Vardakoulias

Can our economies keep growing? If not, what next? Kirsty speaks with Olivier Vardakoulias, economist at NEF. The talk is about the current (2016) economic situation in the UK and beyond. Growth has been going down, politics should not build on growth, since there is no growth to be expected. Also mainstream mayor economists speak of stagnation. The talk goes into detail of theories which ar...

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Aus dem Artikel: Wirtschaftswachstum gab es nicht immer. Wie konnte es also zur mächtigsten Rechtfertigungsideologie des Kapitalismus werden? . . . Wirtschaftswachstum erscheint so selbstverständlich, dass leicht vergessen wird, dass nicht nur die Realität ökonomischer Expansion, sondern auch Wachstumsdiskurse erstaunlich neue Phänomene sind. Relevante Wachstumsraten gab es erst seit der kap...

By: Antoine Missemer

Keywords: History of economic thought, Georgescu-Roegen, degrowth, bioeconomics, agrowth

By: Matthias Schmelzer

"Degrowth aims at undoing growth. Undoing growth both at the level of social structures and social imaginaries. Although the focus is very often on the latter, i.e. the “decolonization of imaginaries” as put by Serge Latouche, the degrowth perspective still seems to lack a comprehensive understanding of the role of ideology, the path dependencies and the power that shape these imaginations. (.....

By: Maria Markantonatou

Abstract: This article examines the perspective on labor in two critiques of “growth” as elaborated in the context of two capitalist crises: the Keynesian model of industrial development in the 1970s, and the neoliberal finance capitalist growth model of today. A landmark event for the first critique was the publication of the “Limits to Growth” report, and for the second the emergence of the “...

By: Ferdin, Knauß

Working Paper des Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.

By: Fabian Scheidler

Das Ende der Megamaschine legt die Wurzeln der Zerstörungskräfte frei, die heute die menschliche Zukunft infrage stellen. In einer Spurensuche durch fünf Jahrtausende führt das Buch zu den Ursprüngen ökonomischer, militärischer und ideologischer Macht. Der Autor erzählt die Vorgeschichte und Genese des modernen Weltsystems, das Mensch und Natur einer radikalen Ausbeutung unterwirft. Dabei demon...

By: François Schneider, Schattenblick

Interview mit François Schneider im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: SB: Was stellt sich das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Aktivismus, von Theorie und Praxis für dich dar? FS: Wir müssen auf verschiedenen Ebenen und Skalen arbeiten. Die oppositionelle Praxis zur Veränderung politischer Strukturen muß zur gleichen ...

By: John Jordan, Schattenblick

Interview mit John Jordan im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Der Künstler John Jordan ist seit vielen Jahren in sozialen Bewegungen aktiv. In den 90er Jahren war er an der Gründung der gegen den Automobilismus gerichteten direkten Aktion Reclaim the Streets wie auch der Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army beteili...

By: Herman E. Daly

The publisher: In this important book, Herman E. Daly lays bare the weaknesses of growth economics and explains why, in contrast, a steady-state economy is both necessary and desirable. Through the course of the book, Daly develops the basic concept and theory of a steady-state economy from the 1970s limits to growth debates. In doing so, he draws on work from the classical economists, through ...