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Scientific paper • 2015

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Does slow growth lead to rising inequality? Some theoretical reflections and numerical simulations

By: Tim Jackson, Peter A. Victor

Social justice; Inequality; Macroeconomics; Stock flow consistent modelling; Savings; Investment

Scientific paper • 2014

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Commons against and beyond capitalism

By: George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici

Abstract: This essay contrasts the logic underlining the production of ‘commons’ with the logic of capitalist relations, and describes the conditions under which ‘commons’ become the seeds of a society beyond state and market. It also warns against the danger that ‘commons’ may be coopted to provide low-cost forms of reproduction, and discusses how this outcome can be prevented. Community De...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Akteurszwang und Systemwissen. Das Elend der Wachstumsgesellschaft.

By: Stephan Lessenich

Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag aktualisiert Georg Vobrubas theoretische Figur des Akteurswissens um Systemzwänge im Lichte der spätmodernen Wachstumsgesellschaft. Er fragt nach dem spezifischen Reproduktionsmodus dieser Gesellschaftsform, nach ihren über das systemkonforme Handeln der Leute vermittelten Widersprüchen - und schließlich danach, welche emanzipatorischen Potenziale sich in einer Gese...

• 2014

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Wachstum: Nachdenken über einen Begriff

By: Deniz Utlu

Untertitel: Warum Güter-Zunahme und biologische Reife ein identisches Wort beschreibt Der Begriff Wachstum wird durchdacht, die Methaper des Wirtschaftswachstums beschrieben und kritisiert. Zitat aus dem Text: "Eine literarische Metapher, die scheitert, zerstört allenfalls den Text. Eine politische Metapher, die scheitert, bringt womöglich die ganze Gesellschaft in Gefahr."

Scientific paper • 2014

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Potentials for prosperity without growth: Ecological sustainability, social inclusion and the quality of life in 38 countries

By: Max Koch, Martin Fritz

Prosperity, Steady-state economy, Ecological sustainability, Social inclusion, Wellbeing, GDP

• 2014

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“Wachstumsrücknahme”, “Postwachstum”, “Entwachsen”? An introduction to concepts and approaches of the German degrowth movement.

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Rough sketch of different currents of the Germans-speaking growth critical scene and degrowth movement.

Scientific paper • 2014

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Adam Smith's

By: Till Wagner

invisible hand, growth, degrowth

Scientific paper • 2014

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Essays on frugal abundance

By: Serge Latouche

Part of the introduction to part 1: The great Yale economist Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was said to have a parrot which he had trained to answer any question his students might ask with the words, ‘It’s the law of supply and demand.’ As I find myself facing the same old questions about degrowth over and over again in interviews and debates, I often wish I had such a partner. But if the laws of t...

Art contribution • 2014

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Der neue Mensch. / The new Man.

By: LIGNA

[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="100341,100342,100343,100344,100345"] Four Exercises in Utopian Movements From the conference programme: THE NEW MAN is an interactive radio play in which the spectator becomes an active participant. The audience will meet the visions of the new Man of four artists of the 20s : the poet Bertolt Brecht, the dancer Rudolf von Laban, the director Wsewolod M...

Scientific paper • 2014

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The Forest Transition theory under scrutiny. Towards a Degrowth-inspired Land-Change Science

By: Iago Otero

Abstract: As an emerging new paradigm, degrowth is influencing and being influenced by different research fields and theoretical frameworks. In this paper I explore how degrowth may engage with land-change science. I focus on the Forest Transition (FT) framework, one of the main theoretical bodies of land-change science, and use it to illustrate some of the conceptual and empirical weaknesses o...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Green economy and its others: conservation, scarcity, and buen vivir

By: Kathleen McAfee

Abstract: Green economy aims to save globalized capitalism from economic crisis by muting its ecologically and socially destructive consequences and surmounting conflicts rooted in worsening global inequalities. Its advocates endorse markets in nature as both a conservation strategy and a means to revive economic growth in a context of perceived resource shortages and scarce ecological space. S...

Scientific paper • 2014

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THE PRACTICE AT PSYCHOANALYSES (FREE CLINICS AND SOCIAL ONES) THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (DEGROWTH POLICY): A DIALOGUE WITHIN THE ACTOR-NET THEORY

By: Lina Raquel Marinho, Edna Chernicharo

Abstract: This essay intends to discuss a new concept of subject and subjectivity considering the experience in the past at Vienna on the Free Clinic psychoanalyses practices and treatments, by Sigmund Freud, considering the concepts, debates and discussions on the actor-net theory theme and science and at least but not last considering the so called Degrowth Movement and its whole arena of deb...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Pathways towards an environmentally sustainable economy: Explaining the differences

By: Karen Jeffrey

Abstract: As well as presenting an opportunity to understand where commonalities exist between degrowth advocates and others calling for a transition to an environmentally sustainable economic system, this analysis will highlight the causes of disagreement in views of how an environmentally sustainable economy might be achieved. Our NETGREEN research identifies the trail of logic that shapes in...

• 2014

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Gutes Leben statt Wachstum: Degrowth, Klimagerechtigkeit, Subsistenz – eine Einführung in die Begriffe und Ansätze der Postwachstumsbewegung

By: Matthias Schmelzer

Knapper Überblick über unterschiedliche Strömungen die es in der deutschsprachigen wachstumskritischen Szene und der Postwachstumsbewegung gibt.

Scientific paper • 2014

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Edgar Morin and the art of rebalancing what needs to grow, degrow and be stabilized.

By: François Gillet

complexe thinking, growth, degrowth , stabilization

Scientific paper • 2014

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Ecological monetary economics: A post-Keynesian critique

By: Louison Cahen-Fourot, Marc Lavoie

Ecological macroeconomics ; Ecological monetary economics ; post-Keynesian economics ; steady-state ; degrowth

Scientific paper • 2014

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Neoclassical, post-Keynesian and neo-Marxian perspectives on degrowth

By: Steffen Lange

Abstract: The question, how an economy can be organized without growth has received little attention from many strands of macroeconomics. In this paper I investigate this question, from the point of view of three prominent strands of macroeconomic theories: neoclassical, post-Keynesian and neo-Marxian approaches. The view of neoclassical theories is, that we need a different technological devel...

Scientific paper • 2014

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The Dawn of Modern Era: Montaigne and Spinoza as Alternatives to Cartesian Weltanschauung.

By: Pier Luigi Tosi

Abstract: Mechanism is at the origin of the actual economical conception, based on endless growth. It is founded on Descartes's thought, with its strong distinction between mind and material world, continued by Bacon and Newton (as Latouche points out). Some years before and some years after Descartes, Montaigne and Spinoza respectively proposed significantly different conceptions. The French o...

Scientific paper • 2014

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Prospective modeling for Degrowth: Investigating macroeconomic scenarios for France

By: François Briens, Nadia Maïzi

Macroeconomic modeling, Prospective, Degrowth scenarios

Scientific paper • 2014

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Post - Growth Economics: A Paradigm Shift in Progress

By: Samuel Alexander

postcarbonpathways.net.au: This paper reviews the key thinkers and movements in the emerging paradigm of ‘post-growth’ economics. By way of introduction, a brief overview of the growth paradigm is presented, in order to later highlight, by way of contrast, some of the most prominent features of the alternative paradigm. A substantial literature review of post-growth economics is then provided, ...