Growing by decreasing

Andrei Cechin () and José Eli da Veiga ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2024, vol. 44, issue 4, 753-768

Abstract: To justify the thesis under the motto “growing by decreasing,” this paper presentsthree arguments. First, the evolution of ideas about tackling the environmental side effectsof economic growth went from “limits to growth” to the unifying concept of “beyondgrowth,”with “green growth” and “degrowth” as two poles of the recent debate. Second,there are indications of important convergences regarding policy prescriptions in any “greenstrategy.” Third, some clues suggest that, despite the convergences, the main challenge isovercoming the inertia in production-consumption systems by destabilizing the dominantconfiguration and inducing a change in consumers’ preferences. JEL Classification: O33; 038; O44; Q56; Q57; Q58.

Keywords: Green growth; degrowth; strategy; technological change; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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