Post-Growth

Sociologist and thinker reinvents the institutions of the liberal global order. Fly through a 30-year rescue of social rights and the environment from the ravages of unbridled globalisation.

Part two of an interview with key thinkers at the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament.

At the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament, key thinkers discuss today’s possibilities for imagining a world beyond growth.

An interview with European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager on whether the time has come to leave growth behind.

With global production pushing the planet past its limits, a shift from growth to sufficiency in rich countries is now an imperative

With growth-driven economies surpassing environmental limits, a job guarantee could offer a way to a sustainable economic system.

Could reducing working time offer a way to a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable society?

These days, the degrowth movement is not interested in provocation anymore. Instead it wants to stimulate discussions amongst the people who believe that it is possible to decolonise our minds. Vincent Liegey, the coordinator of the latest Degrowth Conference says that the movement’s impact is already visible in many party programmes

In this interview, commons scholar Silke Helfrich discusses the connection between degrowth and the commons, and how these two concepts can help us build a sustainable economy.

It is vital now to distinguish between the terms “sustainable development” and “degrowth”, as while one has lost meaning, another is more relevant than ever. Written before the start of COP21, this piece sets apart the two and highlights the importance of changing our view of what constitutes a healthy, climate-friendly economy.