Still locked in an environmentally destructive spiral, can Europe break from the chokehold of growth? If growth is coming to an end, are there routes to prosperity and progress that don’t run through economic growth?
In the pages of the Green European Journal, you can trace an ongoing dialogue on the “beyond growth” question featuring thinkers and activists such as Jason Hickel, Kate Raworth, Tim Jackson and Mariana Mazzucato. In these essays and interviews, you can find debates on postgrowth economic models, the politics of postgrowth and the deeper significance of moving beyond the growth paradigm.
Imagining Europe Beyond Growth
As a media partner of the European Parliament’s Beyond Growth Conference (15-17th May 2023), we published the special Imagining Europe Beyond Growth issue in cooperation with Oikos and the European Environmental Bureau, which you can download in pdf.
As one of the fundamental questions of our time, the Green European Journal has been exploring alternatives to growth as the debate has gathered pace. Discover some highlights from our archive below.
Articles in this focus
The opportunities for renewal offered by the green transition, according to Joseph Stiglitz.
Read moreCan societies achieve a more stable future and a fairer green transition looking beyond growth?
Read morePaolo Gentiloni and Philippe Lamberts discuss on whether a post-growth Europe can fight inequality and protect the planet.
Read moreWhat if we understood the economy not as some abstract construct at once shaping society but separated from the living planet that we all call home? What if the European Union transformed itself to dedicate itself to meeting the people’s needs without pushing beyond planetary boundaries? The Green European Journal sat down with Kate Raworth, the renegade thinker and author of Doughnut Economics, to talk prosperity beyond growth.
Read moreJason Hickel explains how degrowth can help fix the worsening ecological crisis and what it means for relations between the Global North and South.
Read moreJason Hickel explains why green transition policies without a social justice lens are doomed to fail.
Read moreAn interview on daring to dream and designing economics to regenerate life and community, to thrive rather than to grow.
Read moreA new book exploring the origins, sub-currents, and evolution of degrowth, as well as the solutions it offers for the future.
Read moreA new policy paradigm needs to emerge that is capable of thinking broadly and ecologically about wellbeing, sustainability, and justice.
Read moreAs Brussels prepares to reform its economy on the basis of the doughnut model, Amsterdam is already taking the leap with its circular economy strategy.
Read moreRather than insisting on external limits, environmentalists should call for society to make its own.
Read moreCelebrated economist Mariana Mazzucato argues that the opponents of growth are focused on the wrong target. The real problem is the kind of growth.
Read moreTo mark the centenary of his birth, we explore André Gorz’s influence on degrowth and political ecology today.
Read moreMaja Göpel on how education, imagination, and ideas can spark wider societal change.
Read morePart two of an interview with key thinkers at the Post-Growth 2018 conference at the European Parliament.
Read moreBrussels is setting on a new path to align its economy with social and climate goals. Here is how it’s going.
Read moreThe need to reorganise work can be justified both in social and ecological terms.
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