Category:Post-Growth
Beyond economic growth. Introduction to post-growth economics.
Our favourite group: The Post-Growth Institute
Main proposed alternatives:
Key Citations
Short Citations
"As living systems mature they shift from an early (juvenile) stage that favours quantitative growth to a later (mature) stage of growing (transforming) qualitatively rather than quantitatively."
- Daniel Christian Wahl [1]
Long Citations
“Sustainability does not mean zero growth. Rather, a sustainable society would be interested in qualitative development, not physical expansion. It would use material growth as a considered tool, not a perpetual mandate. […] it would begin to discriminate among kinds of growth and purposes for growth. It would ask what the growth is for, and who would benefit, and what it would cost, and how long it would last, and whether the growth could be accommodated by the sources and sinks of the earth."
- Meadows, Meadows & Randers [2]
“It seems that our key challenge is how to shift from an economic system based on the notion of unlimited growth to one that is both ecologically sustainable and socially just. ‘No growth’ is not the answer. Growth is a central characteristic of all life; a society, or economy, that does not grow will die sooner or later. Growth in nature, however, is not linear and unlimited. While certain parts of organisms, or ecosystems, grow, others decline, releasing and recycling their components which become resources for new growth.”
— Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson [3]
Key Resources
- Video: Who Killed Economic Growth?. The thesis of Richard Heinberg.
Pages in category "Post-Growth"
The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total.
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- Debal Deb on Beyond Developmentality towards the Zero Growth Economy
- Deep Adaptation
- Degrowth
- Degrowth and the Supply of Money in an Energy-Scarce World
- Degrowth Manifesto
- Degrowth, Post-Development, and Transitions
- Development as Buen Vivir
- Does the Gift Economy Undermine Economic Growth
- Doing It Ourselves
- Donnie Maclurcan on Thriving Beyond Economic Growth
- Douglas Rushkoff on How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
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- Paul Gilding on How the Resource Crisis Will Stop Economic Growth
- Perma-Circularity
- Peter Victor on Managing the Economy without Growth
- Policies for a Post-Growth Economy
- Policy Proposals to Move from Quantitative to Qualitative Economic Growth
- Politics of Growth and Post-Capitalist Futures
- Post Growth Institute
- Post-Development
- Post-Growth
- Post-Growth Economics
- Post-Growth Entrepreneurship
- Post-Growth Institute
- Post-Growth Society for the 21st Century
- Post-Productivism
- Postgrowth Cities Coalition
- Potential of the Green Economy Agenda for Transformational Discourse
- Problem of Growth
- Problem of Growth as Related to Hierarchy
- Prosperity Without Growth
- Prosperity without Growth
- Prosperous Way Down
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- Rational Regulation of Material Exchanges
- Regenerative Development
- Regenerative Growth
- Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
- Richard Heinberg on the Conditions for Smart Local Development in Times of Increased Resource Scarcity
- Richard Heinberg on the End of Growth