Growth, Degrowth or Post-growth? Towards a synthetic understanding of the growth debate

Xhulia Likaj (), Michael Jacobs () and Thomas Fricke ()
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Xhulia Likaj: Forum New Economy
Michael Jacobs: University of Sheffield (SPERI)
Thomas Fricke: Forum New Economy

No 2, Basic Papers from Forum New Economy

Abstract: Arguments about the possibility and desirability of exponential economic growth have animated the environmental movement for half a century, since the publication of the Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth in 1972. The debate has been revived in recent years as the climate crisis has reached centre-stage. This paper seeks to unpick the different strands in the debate and the different kinds of arguments - philosophical, empirical, and policy-prescriptive - used by different writers and institutions. It suggests that the contemporary debate is best understood as a disagreement between political strategies, in which the character of public and academic discourse plays a key role.

Keywords: economic growth; green growth; degrowth; post-growth; wellbeing; GDP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O4 O44 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2022-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env, nep-gro, nep-his, nep-hme and nep-hpe
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