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Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] Degrowth theory is based on ideas and research from a multitude of disciplines such as economics, economic anthropology, ecological economics, environmental sciences, and development studies. It argues that the unitary focus of modern capitalism on growth, in terms of the monetary value of aggregate goods and services, causes widespread ecological damage and is not necessary for the further increase of human living standards.[9][10][11] Degrowth theory has been met with both academic acclaim and considerable criticism.[12][13][14]
Degrowth theory's main argument is that an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to the finiteness of material resources on Earth. It argues that economic growth measured by GDP should be abandoned as a policy objective. Policy should instead focus on economic and social metrics such as life expectancy, health, education, housing, and ecologically sustainable work as indicators of both eco-systems and human well-being.[15] Degrowth theorists posit that this may increase human living standards and ecological preservation, even while GDP slows down or decreases.[16][17][18]
Degrowth theory is highly critical of free market capitalism, and it highlights the importance of extensive public services, care work, self-organization, commons, relational goods, community, and work sharing.[19][20]
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^Kallis, Giorgos; Kostakis, Vasilis; Lange, Steffen; et al. (2018). "Research On Degrowth". Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 43 (1): 291–316. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941. ISSN 1543-5938.
^Hickel, Jason (2021). "What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification". Globalizations. 18 (7): 1105–1111. doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1812222. S2CID 221800076.
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^Hickel, Jason; Kallis, Giorgos; Jackson, Tim; O’Neill, Daniel W.; Schor, Juliet B.; Steinberger, Julia K.; Victor, Peter A.; Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana (December 2022). "Degrowth can work — here's how science can help". Nature. 612 (7940): 400–403. Bibcode:2022Natur.612..400H. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-04412-x. PMID 36510013. S2CID 254614532.
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^Horowitz, Julia (2022-11-13). "Degrowth: A dangerous idea or the answer to the world's biggest crisis? | CNN Business". CNN. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
^Bokat-Lindell, Spencer (2021-09-16). "Opinion | Do We Need to Shrink the Economy to Stop Climate Change?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
^Nelson, Anitra (2024-01-31). "Degrowth as a Concept and Practice: Introduction". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
^Hickel, Jason (2022). Less is more (1 ed.). London: Penguin Books. pp. 170–179. ISBN 9781786091215.
^Demaria, Federico; Schneider, François; Sekulova, Filka; Martinez-Alier, Joan (2013). "What is Degrowth? From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement". Environmental Values. 22 (2): 191–215. doi:10.3197/096327113X13581561725194. ISSN 0963-2719. JSTOR 23460978. S2CID 55888884.
^Demaria, Federico; Kothari, Ashish; Salleh, Ariel; Escobar, Arturo; Acosta, Alberto (2019). Pluriverse. A Post-Development Dictionary. New Delhi: Tulika Books. ISBN 9788193732984.
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Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development...
equity on the planet". A common denominator of degrowth is a decline in the metric GDP. More concrete degrowth proposals are diverse, dispersed throughout...
stands in stark contrast with the degrowth movement, sometimes described by it as "decelerationism" or "decels". The degrowth movement advocates for reducing...
Solutions (2017) and Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2020). A critic of capitalism, he argues that degrowth is the solution to human impact on...
Degrowth movement, appearing in representative texts such as Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era. The understanding of conviviality within degrowth is...
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. An English translation of his "degrowth manifesto" has been published early the following...
degrowth. Agrowth is supported by many scientists. van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. (March 2011). "Environment versus growth — A criticism of 'degrowth'...
the arguments and policy recommendations. Internationally organised, the Degrowth movement is taking a similar position and argue that overconsumption lies...
natural science by Karl Marx, the book presents a Marxist argument for degrowth as a means of mitigating climate change. Capital in the Anthropocene was...
theory is degrowth economics.Degrowth addresses both biophysical limits and global inequality while rejecting neoliberal economics. Degrowth prioritizes...
political ecology. He is one of the principal advocates of the theory of degrowth. Kallis was born and raised in Athens, son of medical doctors Vassilis...
"The Path to Degrowth in Overdeveloped Countries", written by Erik Assadourian, is the second chapter of the Worldwatch Institute's State of the World...
rationalism. He is one of the thinkers and most renowned partisans of the degrowth theory. Latouche has also published in the Revue du Mauss, a French anti-utilitarian...
Zero growth or no growth may refer to: Degrowth, a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics, anti-consumerist, and anti-capitalist...
environmentalist, anti-consumerist, or anti-war movements, including conservation, degrowth, deep ecology, and tax resistance. A number of religious and spiritual...
ecological economics, as well as in political debates on post-growth and degrowth. It is disputed whether growth imperative is a meaningful concept altogether...
the use of recycled materials and environmentally-friendly production. Degrowth Minimalism Minimalism (computing) Worse is better "Mies van der Rohe: The...
from proponents of degrowth or the steady-state economy. Eighteen ecological economists published a long rejoinder titled "A Degrowth Response to an Ecomodernist...
Trevi Fountain to get Europe to abandon fossil fuels and undergo extreme degrowth" (Post on X). X. @RyanMaue. Archived from the original on 19 October 2023...
Bright green environmentalism Criticisms of globalization Deep ecology Degrowth Dirty hands Disinvestment Ecoauthoritarianism Eco-capitalism Ecocentrism...
Kropotkin and Éliseé Reclus, who advocated for the decentralisation and degrowth of industry as a means to advance both social justice and environmental...
2021 respectively compared to 10.93 million in 2019, representing a -44% degrowth. India has bigger domestic tourist population so it's not dependent on...
ecological problems could be seen in the emergence of movements associated with degrowth, eco-socialism and eco-anarchism. Early socialist thought took influences...
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