Post-Growth

Kate Raworth’s doughnut model is an economic theory designed to easily and intelligibly assess an economy’s sustainability. Visually represented in the shape of a doughnut, it combines the concepts of planetary boundaries and minimum social standards to measure economic performance. Major European cities such as Amsterdam, Geneva and Brussels, have adopted the doughnut model to guide their green transitions. Barbara Trachte, secretary of state of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Economic Transition and Scientific Research, explains how Brussels is using the the model to set a new direction for the city region’s economy.

A new book exploring the origins, sub-currents, and evolution of degrowth, as well as the solutions it offers for the future.

What does environmental economist Tim Jackson’s latest book, Post Growth, have to say about breaking the growth chokehold?

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.

An interview on daring to dream and designing economics to regenerate life and community, to thrive rather than to grow.

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.

Drawing on the experience of the Alaskan oil fund, this interview unpicks the links between basic income and ecological sustainability.

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