Degrowth A Vocabulary for a New Era

Giacomo D’Alisa, "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era"
English | ISBN: 1138000779 | 2014 | 220 pages | MOBI | 586 KB
Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.

This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels – local, national and global.
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