On February 23rd, 2024, the New York-based socialist magazine Jacobin published “4 problems for the degrowth movement,” a short piece written by Daniel Driscoll,…
Economist Tim Parrique speaks with co-host Rachel Donald on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast about the economic model known as “degrowth.”…
This piece is not going to be my usual point-by-point debunking. First, I’ve been doing plenty of that already (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) and there…
On May 18th, 2023, The Economist ran a piece titled “Meet the lefty Europeans who want to deliberately shrink the economy,” commenting on the Beyond…
Authored by:Timothée ParriqueKate RaworthVincent Liegey Signed by, among others:Milena BuchsEloi LaurentEkaterina ChertkovskayaJulia SteinbergerCamille ÉtienneAdélaïde CharlierNick Fitzpatrick (see pdf for complete signatories) Friends of the…
Periodically, American economist Paul Krugman cherry-picks a few numbers to argue that economic growth is more sustainable than we think. While these…
Degrowth might be wrong, but it will take more than a two-page mumble to convince me that it is
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