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About Vincent Liegey

Vincent Liegey, co-author of the Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (2025) and Exploring Degrowth(Pluto Press, 2020). Interdisciplinary researcher, lecturer and freelance writer on Degrowth. Ex-spokesperson of the French Degrowth Party. Coordinator of Cargonomia, Degrowth research and experimentation center in Budapest and of the International Degrowth Conference Support Group.

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.