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Giorgos Kallis\u2019 Degrowth | A review by Sarah Hafner<\/a><\/h3>\n

Rethinking our economic paradigms is an urgent and fundamentally important task. Giorgos Kallis\u2019 new book Degrowth <\/em>is adding to a joint endeavour of postgrowth thinking, CUSP PhD candidate Sarah Hafner finds. It offers both, a justification as well as a vision and new imaginary for the\u00a0degrowth<\/em> agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rethinking the prevailing economic \u2018growth\u2019-paradigm in economics is an urgent and fundamentally important task. Equally important is it to think about \u2018socially and environmental sustainable\u2019 alternatives and the transition towards these alternative\/s (see Jackson, 2017; Mart\u00ednez-Alier et al., 2012).<\/p>\n

Giorgos Kallis<\/a>, Research Professor at the University Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB) and well-known for his contributions in the degrowth<\/em> literature, opts exactly for this endeavour in his new comprehensive summary and thought-provoking book Degrowth<\/em>. This blog provides a short review.<\/p>\n

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The author himself situates his work at the interface of two approaches: the economic and the political or utopian one. This is also how this book review is structured.<\/p>\n

The reader of the book learns quickly that in Kallis\u2019 perspective degrowth<\/em> \u201cis not an economic theory, much less of an economic contradiction\u201d and so, he clarifies from the beginning that his book doesn\u2019t engage with tackling traditional growth and economic theories (see e.g. Lange, 2018 for an overview on the latter; as well as e.g. Jackson, 2017 and Jackson and Victor, 2018 for economic modelling work on this topic), and is focusing instead on the interrelations of the economic system with the political and societal\/social system.<\/p>\n

Degrowth<\/em>, as developed in the book, stands in clear contrast to the prevailing capitalist system (see also Foster, 2011 or Jackson, 2017); well-being as a function (up to some level) of income and relative income (i.e. related to status and positional consumption; e.g. Kahnemann and Daeton, 2010; Easterlin, 1975), Kallis argues, is not a universal fact, but heavily related to the emphasized values in the current (capitalist) system.<\/p>\n

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