Deepening the degrowth planning debate: division of labor, complexity, and the roles of markets and digital tools DOI Creative Commons
Max Koch

Sustainability Science Practice and Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 20(1)

Published: July 27, 2024

Many definitions of degrowth highlight that the corresponding great and deep transformations are going to be "designed," "planned," "democratic." However, critical issues democratic planning have only recently begun discussed. Considering a range aspects technical social division labor, article first revisits some main market vis-à-vis planned resource allocation in capitalist socialist economic growth contexts. It then zooms on goals, characteristics, likely labor circumstances. I argue societies could use three measures reduce complexity undermined attempts. First, immediately phase out "excess sector" production. Second, they develop, under consideration their institutional national traditions, pragmatic mixes ex ante (assisted by digital solutions) "essential" sector post or regulation "in-between" sector. Finally, parsimonious tools is helpful connecting different scales governance associated activities (local, national, regional, global). To democratically legitimize goals processes without overburdening people, pathways may sought emphasize value over formal rationality, general principles strategies concrete targets tasks. Democratic legitimacy further increase through complementation representative democracy deliberative instruments such as citizen forums assemblies well applications subsidiarity principle.

Language: Английский

Post-growth economics as a guide for systemic change: Theoretical and methodological foundations DOI Creative Commons
Elena Hofferberth

Ecological Economics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 230, P. 108521 - 108521

Published: Jan. 25, 2025

Language: Английский

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Green macrofinancial regimes DOI Creative Commons
Daniela Gabor, Benjamin Braun

Review of International Political Economy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 27

Published: Feb. 3, 2025

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How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis DOI Creative Commons
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan

World Development Perspectives, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 35, P. 100612 - 100612

Published: July 23, 2024

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would increasing total global output resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within imperialist structure existing world economy. Here we demonstrate dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted recent needs-based analyses development. Strategies should not pursue capitalist growth increased aggregate production as such, but rather increase specific forms are necessary improve capabilities meet human needs at high standard, while ensuring access key goods services through public provisioning decommodification. At same time, countries, less-necessary scaled down enable faster decarbonization help bring back planetary boundaries. With achieved without requiring large increases throughput output. Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) 8.5 billion people only 30% current energy use, leaving substantial surplus additional consumption, luxury, scientific advancement, other social investments. Such future requires planning provision services, deploy efficient technology, build sovereign industrial capacity South.

Language: Английский

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Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal DOI Creative Commons
Max Koch

JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 16, 2025

Abstract Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling gross domestic product (GDP) growth from environmental resource use stay within planetary limits and meet Paris climate goals, this article argues that it unavoidable European Union (EU) enter postgrowth era outlines contours ‘sustainable welfare deal’. It first reviews critical issues Green Deal related EU initiatives. With focus on degrowth sustainable welfare, subsequently zooms in approaches substitute GDP as overall policy target social operationalized boundaries floors. also introduces relevant current debates growth‐critical academic community: complexity democratic planning, economic roles elites governance social‐ecological transformations. The discussion sketches encourages further debate deal’ meaningful response how could be integrated making.

Language: Английский

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Strategic planning for degrowth: What, who, how DOI Creative Commons
Federico Savini

Planning Theory, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 31, 2024

Degrowth is gaining traction as a viable alternative to mainstream approaches sustainability. However, translating degrowth insights into concrete strategies of collective action remains challenge. To address this challenge, paper develops perspective for strategic spatial planning well approach degrowth. I argue that transition needs three issues: depth, agency, and trajectory. aim satiation, the satisfaction all essential in particular society. do so, they rely on diffused societal power, raising from existing practices reduction. Strategies also follow nonlinear trajectory seeks prefigure popularize it among masses, then pressure institutions. Strategic offers important dealing with these challenges but embrace satiation goal. It can so by creating complementarities between prefigurative perform satiation. The article defines illustrates processes looking at making Amsterdam’s ‘doughnut’ strategy.

Language: Английский

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La Just Transition come strategia partecipativa del lavoro: sapere operaio e democrazia economica nella vertenza ex GKN DOI

Francesca Gabbriellini,

Emanuele Leonardi

ECONOMIA E SOCIETÀ REGIONALE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 3, P. 53 - 72

Published: March 1, 2024

Il concetto di Just Transition (JT) nel lavoro per la trasformazione ecologica è stato oggetto critica e riflessione nelle scienze sociali. Originariamente difensivo, nell'oggi implica un coinvolgimento sindacale più ampio. Tuttavia, l'attenzione delle organizzazioni sindacali sull'occupazione si concentra principalmente sulla quantità qualità dei posti lavoro. Al fine illuminare il ruolo della partecipazione lavoratori nella produzione proces- so lavoro, propone l'esempio vertenza ex Gkn Campi Bisenzio (FI) come mo- dello operaia, incentrata sul sapere degli operai democrazia eco- nomica. In breve, ricerca indaga JT possa essere una strategia partecipativa del Attraverso caso-studio Gkn, evidenzia processo conversione logica stabilimento, inclusa mobilitazione sociale redazione progetti riatti- vazione ecologico-produttiva, prefigurare l'avvio transizione "dal basso", capace valorizzare potenziale trasformativo convergenza tra operaio saperi esperti le politiche pubbliche l'azione sindacali.

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“A Sane Island in an Ocean of Madness”: A Case of Alternative Organisational Ethics Through Post-Growth Values DOI Creative Commons
Ben Robra, Alex Pazaitis,

Arnaud Levy

et al.

Journal of Business Ethics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 9, 2025

Abstract Unprecedented runaway climate change and ecological degradation is argued to be caused by the dominant capitalist mode of production’s reliance on endless economic growth capital accumulation. Businesses organisations are expected act in an ecologically socially ethical way help avert crisis. Yet, there has arguably been little progress this direction. The conventional frameworks generally subsumed under capitalism’s that effectively delegate business ethics a peripheral and, often, contradictory pursuit, insufficient influence sustainable conduct. We therefore explore alternative approach operationalising through organisational values from post-growth perspective. By analysing case social cooperative, we highlight how emerge organisation’s history, members’ experience, active contrasting value systems. contribute scholarship highlighting potential creating contrasts values. Our research further contributes sustainability scholarship, particularly perspectives, organising contrast system not only possible, but essential achieve sustainability. Ultimately, our illustrates need for political engagement upholding ethics, face

Language: Английский

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Lost principles of a ‘sustainable developmentalism’ DOI Creative Commons

Baptiste Albertone

Review of International Political Economy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 24

Published: Jan. 9, 2025

This article discusses the advent, in 1970s and early 1980s, of a critical turn developmentalist thinking. ideational shift was defined by aspiration classical development scholars to identify conditions possibility for ecologically sustainable emancipatory forms periphery. Notably, it resulted formulation Ignacy Sachs's concept eco-development—i.e. precursor notion development. More than simple effort add an environmental dimension theory, eco-development expressed search another development, endogenous rather mimetic, oriented towards human needs. As such, converged with attempts other major figures such as Raúl Prebisch Celso Furtado, radically reconsider, over same period, nature transformations needed These contributions, however, have largely been forgotten, their potential critically thinking about Anthropocene remains untapped. recovers main conceptual innovations this moment theoretical transformation argues that they formed foundations developmentalism: approach from global

Language: Английский

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Is all that now glitters sufficient? An investigation of a gold resource cap in Australia DOI Creative Commons
A. V. Kelly

Resources Policy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 103, P. 105540 - 105540

Published: March 8, 2025

Language: Английский

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Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy DOI Creative Commons
Olivér Kovács, Endre Domonkos

Regulation & Governance, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 17, 2025

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a transdisciplinary approach to design future degrowth‐oriented industrial policies in pursuing well‐being economy the case of specific growth model. Specifically, we show that Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, V4s) is clarion call for degrowth literature be much more modest self‐critical. It addresses puzzling question whether V4s are influenced by their unique industrialization path, which has historically relied on foreign capital. framework (based political ecological economics) root degrowth‐compatible transition. then analyzes V4s' capital‐dependent models improve policy research. concludes with implications study policy, based experience anticipated remain wayward FDI‐dependent mode, make economy‐seeking endeavor scientifically sound.

Language: Английский

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