Post-Growth

The need to reorganise work can be justified both in social and ecological terms. Yet such reorganisation would not be complete without questioning work’s dominance over other areas of life. Education is a key part of this transformation, but it must be viewed as something that helps people develop and thrive throughout their lives, rather than merely adapting them to the constraints of a neoliberal job market. Real lifelong learning can improve our lives by liberating our time, paving the way to a more equal society.

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

A new policy paradigm needs to emerge that is capable of thinking broadly and ecologically about wellbeing, sustainability, and justice.

Rather than insisting on external limits, environmentalists should call for society to make its own.

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.