Living in a Degrowth World

Wim Naudé

Chapter Chapter 6 in Economic Growth and Societal Collapse, 2023, pp 107-124 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter argues that the Degrowth movement goes astray in insisting that Degrowth would make society and the environment better. Degrowthers miss that in the West, we already live in a degrowth-type world, and that there is much about it that we do not like. The chapter, therefore, describes the Degrowth world—the Great Stagnation—that the West has been approaching since the 1970s, and its correlates: declining entrepreneurship, innovation and science, and research productivity.

Keywords: Degrowth; Stagnation; Zero-sum society; Conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45582-7_6

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