A Steady State Sustains All Boats
Indeed, inequality—of resource use, but also of income and wealth—is extremely high today and is actually worsened by economic growth.
building resilient economies
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 99 Fran Korten
Fran Korten is former executive director, publisher and contributing editor for YES! Magazine. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Not Banking on Banga
Banga needs to help the World Bank bring an end to the debt crisis and create real pathways for debtor countries to build resilience to climate change and volatility in the global economy.
What I learned from the British canals
The essential point is that economists’ competitive frame is falsely founded, and that our competitive social systems are spawning and reinforcing a dangerously myopic culture that is doing us a great deal of damage.
Universal public services: the power of decommodifying survival
The power of universal public services is that we can improve people’s access to goods necessary for decent living, with provisioning systems that require less aggregate energy and material use and which allow us to accelerate decarbonization.
‘Farewell to Growth’ Serge Latouche (2007)
The degrowth movement exists to advance these difficult arguments – to take the large body of evidence as to why the current economic process is failing, and propose a range of alternatives which might avert the catastrophic failure of this system.
Alissa Quart’s ‘Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream’
In Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, Alissa Quart – director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project – addresses the meritocratic delusion of the “self-made man,”….
Escape from Overshoot: Excerpt
Overshoot will transform economic and political systems. It is better to choose the transformations we want rather than have them forced upon us by circumstances beyond our control.
Economic growth is fuelling climate change – a new book proposes ‘degrowth communism’ as the solution
Saito’s book is refreshing because it helps end an old feud between socialists who trust that new technologies and the automation of work can deliver an expanding economy with greater leisure time and those who argue for a socialism without growth.
Why News of Population Decline and Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing
China’s slowdown is a welcome opportunity for global leaders and policymakers to get our priorities straight and set ourselves on a path of sustainable happiness and well-being.
Loss Aversion
On this Frankly, Nate reflects on his experiences in the financial industry with the cognitive bias Loss Aversion and the ways it may manifest to the coming material throughput declines during The Great Simplification.
André Gorz’s Vision for Autonomy and Radical Frugality
Gorz’s reflections on everyday, autonomous ways of meeting our needs encourages us to redefine what it means to live well – which certainly isn’t the abundance erroneously promised by capitalism: what do we want today for happy, collective frugality?