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The Struggle For What’s Essential

May 30, 2022

President of the Pueblo Shuar Arutam of Ecuador, Josefina Tunki, during a protest along with other Shuar women. (Photo: Comunicación PSHA) THE STRUGGLE FOR WHAT’S ESSENTIAL Global mining companies have used the pandemic to push unwanted projects on vulnerable communities, who are fighting back — and sometimes winning. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break […]

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The Selling of Degrowth

December 24, 2021

Shutterstock THE “SELLING” OF DEGROWTH Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it’s too late? Over the last three decades, a growing number of scientists and ecologists have argued that economic growth has long outstripped the capacity of the planetary ecosystem. They have developed numerous sophisticated models […]

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Climate Change and the Limits of Economic Growth

November 4, 2021

Shutterstock CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH If economic growth ushered in this era of climate change, how can economic growth also be part of the solution? Since the nineteenth century, human society has experienced extraordinary but uneven economic growth thanks to the energy unleashed from fossil fuels. That growth, and the greenhouse […]

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The Black Death Killed Feudalism. What Does COVID-19 Mean for Capitalism?

May 14, 2020

The Black Death Killed Feudalism. What Does COVID-19 Mean for Capitalism? How will the coronavirus transform the relationship between state and market? A look at oil, food, and finance. Shutterstock You pay little attention to the systems of your body — circulatory, digestive, pulmonary — unless something goes wrong. These automatic systems ordinarily go about […]

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The U.S. Returns to ‘Great Power Competition,’ With a Dangerous New Edge

February 22, 2018

The U.S. Returns to ‘Great Power Competition,’ With a Dangerous New Edge The U.S. has taken aim at China and Russia for at least the last four administrations. Now, higher ups on all sides are warning of heightened tensions and war. A U.S. aircraft carrier pulls into port at Guam. (Photo: U.S. Navy / Flickr) […]

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Is GDP Over?

October 30, 2015

Is GDP Over? Economists from rich countries increasingly agree: Sustainable development and reducing inequality matter more than economic growth. (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection / Flickr) Organizers of October’s fifth OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge, and Policy could barely contain their sense of satisfaction when the three-day event opened in Guadalajara, Mexico. Why all […]

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