Gibt es "Wachstumszwänge"? Wir definieren den Begriff relativ eng, strukturieren die diskutierten Mechanismen in sechs Gruppen und analysieren sie. Technischer Fortschritt erweist sich mit seiner Kostendynamik und „technologischer Arbeitslosigkeit“ als Hauptursache für das "grow or die"...

Hohe Disparitäten auf Ebene der Quartiere brauchen eine zur regionalen Strukturpolitik ergänzende Politik auf der Quartiersebene. Im Rahmen der Stadterneuerung wird dies durch die Förderung der Lokalen Ökonomie seit rund zwei Jahrzehnten verfolgt. Lokale-Ökonomie-Maßnahmen sollten die...

A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system may hinder knowledge flows and, consequently, spillovers across member countries. A low intensity of knowledge flows across EU states can negatively impact their technological...

Introduction / Hartmut Rosa & Christoph Henning -- Foundations: alternative conceptions of the good life -- The misadventures of the good life between modernity and degrowth : from happiness to buen vivir / Serge Latouche -- Buen vivir : a proposal with global potential / Alberto Acosta --...

The economy in a post-growth era : what project and what philosophy? / Isabelle Cassiers and Kevin Maréchal -- Work and employment in a post-growth era / Dominique Méda -- The new paths of decommodification / Bernard Perret -- Social economy and polycentric governance of transitions / Thomas...

"A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which...

Theorizing the imperial mode of living: an introduction -- The crisis of global environmental politics and the imperial mode of living -- Crisis and continuity of capitalist societal nature relations -- Strategies of a green economy, contours of a green capitalism -- The valorization and...

Challenges and prospects for change in Latin America : a foresight perspective / Ronaldo Munck -- Whither Latin america : outcomes of the progressive cycle / Claudio Katz -- Extractivism : tendencies and consequences / Eduardo Gudynas -- The social economy in Latin America : alter- or...

La 4ème de couverture indique : "Faire circuler l'argent en respectant les humains et en créant du lien social, tel est le pari que font en 1978 une douzaine de personnes. S'inspirant des intuitions de Rudolf Steiner, elles vont expérimenter, pas à pas, différentes manières d'agir avec...

This paper discusses the Brazilian rural development model in the context of Green Economy and the debate about sustainable development, issues that have been discussed in international sphere. In this way, conceptions and new concepts have been defined which clarify the ideas and mechanisms...

Purpose - The hypothesis of the paper is that domestic value added created by exports in Croatia could be increased by investments in green economy. Methodology - In the developed economies only specific products, processes and functions that outperform emerging economies in Global Value Chains...

Foreword : moving beyond alternatives to recognizing multiplicity and complexity in food justice movements / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Introduction : sovereign food spaces? : openings and closures / Marisa Wilson -- Rethinking "alternative" : Maori and food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand /...

Introduction -- Historical materialism and democratic firm management -- A system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic firm management and socialism -- More advantages of a system of democratic firms -- Unemployment in a system of producer cooperatives -- Democratic socialism and income...