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#221. Strategies for a post-growth economy

February 8, 2022

#221. Strategies for a post-growth economy PART ONE: BUSINESS IN A NEW ERA Under current conditions, it’s increasingly hard to understand why the inevitability of economic contraction remains so very much a minority point of view. Many of us have long understood why past growth in material prosperity has gone into reverse. Here, with the SEEDS […]

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Beyond the Growth Imperative

August 6, 2021

Beyond the Growth Imperative For 30 years, environmental economist Tim Jackson has been at the fore of international debates on sustainability. Over a decade since his hugely influential Prosperity Without Growth, the world is both much changed – reeling from a pandemic and with unprecedented prominence for environmental issues – and maddeningly the same, still locked […]

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Reclaiming hope from the dismal science

June 23, 2021

Reclaiming hope from the dismal science Post Growth is published by Polity Press, 2021. “Empowering and elegiac” might seem a strange description of a book on economics. Yet the prominent author and former economics minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, chooses that phrase of praise for the new book Post Growth, by Tim Jackson. In many respects the […]

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You don’t have to live like this—review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living

September 13, 2020

You don’t have to live like this—review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living In her new book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, Kate Soper calls for a vision of the good life not reliant on endless economic growth and points us to the ways in which our current patterns of living are not only environmentally […]

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The Politics of Post-Growth

January 2, 2019

THE POLITICS OF POST-GROWTH The Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament marked a milestone in the history of the post-growth debate, which has predominately been contained within academic circles. In the first part of a two-part interview, Riccardo Mastini discusses the possibilities and challenges for imagining a world beyond growth with two key post-growth […]

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From “Green Growth” to Post-Growth

May 1, 2018

From “Green Growth” to Post-Growth (Photo: Pixabay) The seduction of economic growth is all-pervasive. Even within progressive circles that claim to understand that growth is causing ecological destruction, there is hope in a new type of salvation: “green growth.” This is the idea that technology will become more efficient and allow us to grow the […]

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Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise

August 14, 2015

Earth Overshoot Day and Not-For-Profit Enterprise In 2015, 13 August is Earth Overshoot Day. The day marks the estimated calendar date when humanity’s demand on the planet’s ecological services (which produce renewable resources and assimilate wastes) outstrips what the Earth can supply. This means that for the rest of the year, we are taking more than […]

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Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever? « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

October 31, 2014

Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever? « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Humanity is an irrational lot, prone to denial and short-termism. If rational arguments were primary catalysts for social change, perhaps a steady state economy would already be a reality. Research in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology […]

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