Degrowth and the State

D’Alisa, Giacomo and Giorgos Kallis

Ecological Economics, 2020, vol. 169, issue C

Abstract: This paper addresses a gap in degrowth scholarship: the lack of a theory of the state. Those who write about degrowth advocate radical policy and social change, but have no model to explain how, why and under what conditions such change could come about and what role the state would play in it. This is because they have no theory of what the state is, or when and why it changes. We review for the first time the Anglophone and Francophone literatures on state and degrowth and find both wanting. We propose a Gramscian theory of the state suitable for thinking about degrowth and show with the example of strategizing for a maximum income policy how this suits the degrowth literature’s emphasis on a combination of grassroots and institutional actions.

Keywords: Degrowth policies; Grassroots initiatives; The State; Common sense(s); Societal transformation; Symbiotic and interstitial strategies; Maximum income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106486

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