Product Description
by Giacomo D'Alisa (Editor), Federico DeMaria (Editor), Giorgos Kallis (Editor)
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.
The result is the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.
More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.org
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Author Biography
Giacomo D'Alisa is Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Federico Demaria is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
Giorgios Kallis is Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
The three editors are members of Research & Degrowth, www.degrowth.org