Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly. Given uncertainty about future growth rates and increasing evidence that economic growth is a driver of social and environmental crises, these growth dependencies pose serious societal challenges. In recent...

'Labour Law Utopias' engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. It explores alternative approaches and what those would mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.

In seinem jüngsten Beitrag im Wirtschaftsdienst "Kein Wachstum ist auch keine Lösung - eine Kritik an Degrowth- und Postwachstumsansätzen" greift Fabian Lindner eine essenziell wichtige Debatte auf: Können die Ziele der Pariser Klimakonferenz - die Beschränkung der Erderwärmung auf nicht...

The Degrowth movement advocates a radical shift from our capitalist economic system to one based on human needs, planetary boundaries, and economic democracy. The literature, however, often neglects detailing the concrete coordination mechanisms of a Degrowth economy. This paper addresses this...

Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly. Given uncertainty about future growth rates and increasing evidence that economic growth is a driver of social and environmental crises, these growth dependencies pose serious societal challenges. In recent...

Die Demokratie in Deutschland steht vor einer Bewährungsprobe. Kritik und Radikalisierung wachsen, Akzeptanz und Unterstützung schwinden. Das hat viele Ursachen - nicht zuletzt ökonomische. Die Wachstumsschwäche wird zu einem Problem der "Tragfähigkeit". Durch eine Überlastung von...

We analyze a model of green technological transition along a supply chain. In each layer, a good is produced with a dirty technology, or, if the required "electriffcation" innovation has occurred, with a clean technology which uses the immediate upstream good. We show that the economy is...

An increasing number of tourism researchers now advance the notion of tourism degrowth as a serious and viable alternative to the mainstream, growth-oriented approach to managing tourism development. The paper seeks to clarify, at a conceptual level, the well-being implications of tourism...

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

It is widely accepted that the pursuit of economic growth is becoming increasingly infeasible and undesirable, necessitating substantial changes to European economies. European economic activity in terms of emissions, resource use, pollution and impacts on biodiversity is ecologically...

The purpose of this article is to question these alternative models and whether they would actually improve environmental quality. From the modeling, three main results emerged. First, Saudi Arabia is shown to be converging toward a model of sustainability and sustainable development, despite...

This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled “Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues” that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...

The concept of ‘frugal abundance’ has recently been mentioned in numerous degrowth publications and even presented as “the essence of degrowth” (Kallis et al., 2022, p.2). However, it has not yet been clearly conceptualised. The aim of this article is to start filling this gap through a...

This paper addresses the scope for action by municipalities in a climate emergency and places it in the framework of ecomodern (urban) policy. We analyse the way in which two German ‘climate emergency municipalities’ translate conflicts of post-fossil transformation into concrete political...

Agesichts des Klimawandels und anderer ökologischer Probleme finden die Positionender Degrowth- und Postwachstumsansätze vermehrt Anhänger:innen. Allerdings habendiese wachstumskritischen Ansätze viele Probleme. Die Wachstumskritik ist zwar in vielenBereichen berechtigt, die Schrumpfung oder...

It is widely accepted that the pursuit of economic growth is becoming increasingly infeasible and undesirable, necessitating substantial changes to European economies. European economic activity in terms of emissions, resource use, pollution and impacts on biodiversity is ecologically...

This paper traces the links between post-socialist transformations and the degrowth movement. Based on a series of workshops entitled "Degrowth Enthusiasm and the Eastern Blues" that we organised in recent years, this paper focuses on the following questions: what can we learn from the...

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" - a reduction in GDP in advanced economies - to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth - a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its correlates,...

Highlights• If pessimist assumptions on decoupling by degrowth scholars are correct, stringent climate goals presuppose an economic collapse of unseen magnitude• Alternatively, stringent climate goals such as 1,5°C, are not attainable• These pessimist assumptions are, however, not based...

"Pointiert, scharfzüngig, aber immer präzise argumentierend."Winfried Kretschmer, Süddeutsche ZeitungMeine Smartwatch, mein Auto, mein Haus: Konsum und das Streben nach "mehr" dominieren unsere Gesellschaft. Niko Paech forderte 2012 in "Befreiung vom Überfluss" eine radikale Abkehr von...

1972 erschien das Buch 'Die Grenzen des Wachstums' als Bericht an den Club of Rome. Diese Publikation ist außerordentlich einflussreich geworden. Sie hat das Denken über Wirtschaft und Umwelt mit einem wachstumskritischen Paradigma versorgt, das auch heute noch weit verbreitet ist und als...