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About Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher and lecturer on degrowth. He has co-authored several books on degrowth including The Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (2025), Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020, Pluto Press), and Décroissance, Fake or Not (2022, Tana Editions). He is one of the coordinators of the international degrowth conferences and of Cargonomia (Budapest), a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth. 

Events • 14.08.2026

Decolonising Degrowth from Central and Eastern Europe

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By: Vincent Liegey

What place is there for Central and Eastern Europe in degrowth, and what might degrowth learn from the region? A reflection on the 2026 Central and Eastern Europe Degrowth Conference

Strategy • 20.03.2026

Horizontalism: A degrowth strategy

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By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy

Terry Leahy, Anitra Nelson, and Vincent Liegey outline their understanding of horizontalism and its role in helping realise a degrowth future.

Strategy • 30.09.2025

Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel

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By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy

As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political context.

Reviews • 13.09.2021

A Celebratory Degrowth Message

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By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson

A year ago, in August 2020, we launched our jointly authored book Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (Pluto Press). ‘The book you hold in your hands’ states Jason Hickel of the University of London and author of Less is More 2020, ‘paints a picture of the new economy that lies ahead — an economy that enables human flourishing for all within planetary boundaries.’ Discussion about degrowth has exploded since then when a cluster of general interest books on degrowth appeared in 2020.

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