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Degrowth

2018
The term 'degrowth' has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. <i>Degrowth</i> argues that economic growth is no longer desirable - its costs exceed its benefits - and advocates a transformation of economies so that they produce and consume less ...
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Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth

In view of the aggravating contemporary social and ecological crises, degrowth and post-growth has emerged as a new paradigm promoting a planned reduction of energy and resource use in the global North aimed at limiting environmental pressures, reducing global inequalities, and improving wellbeing. However, the specifics of such ‘planning beyond growth’
Elena Hofferberth   +2 more
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Degrowth

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
"We live in an era of stagnation, rapid impoverishment, rising inequalities, and socio-ecological disasters. In the dominant discourse, these are effects of economic crisis, lack of growth or underdevelopment. This book argues growth is the cause of these problems and that it has become uneconomic, ecologically unsustainable and intrinsically unjust ...
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Planned Degrowth

Monthly Review, 2023
In the introduction to this summer's special issue on "Planned Degrowth," John Bellamy Foster outlines the major themes of degrowth thought, including, above all, a recognition of the need to challenge current notions of "growth" and "prosperity" and move toward a more sustainable model of human development, one that meets the needs of individuals and ...
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