Degrowth - Economics as if People mattered
- How China’s Overcapacity Holds Back Emerging Economiesrhg.com How China's Overcapacity Holds Back Emerging Economies
Since 2019, weak domestic demand and expanding industrial capacity have combined to balloon China’s manufacturing trade surplus. While growing Chinese exports benefit developing countries to some…
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> - Unless Beijing implements serious demand reforms, developing nations will be crowded out of manufacturing by Chinese overcapacity, leaving them dependent and without export opportunities, an analyses finds. > - Despite some benefits, rising Chinese exports have also sharply increased Chinese companies’ market power in less industrialized countries. This makes these countries vulnerable to monopolistic practices such as withholding supply or colluding to raise prices, as well as to market disruptions, pandemic-like external shocks, and potential economic coercion. > - While sharply increasing its exports to sell its overcapacity, China doesn't show willingness to increase its imports. Since 2019, China’s manufacturing imports from emerging economies, already weak relative to the size of its economy, have plateaued in absolute terms for countries like Vietnam, or outright declined in the case of Malaysia and Thailand (Figure 7). > - Put differently, if China had increased its manufacturing imports as much as its exports since 2019, it would have created an additional $363 billion in import demand in 2022, or the equivalent of 11% of total manufacturing exports from developing countries. If it simply imported manufactured goods as much as it exported them in 2022, the additional demand would be equivalent to 54% of developing countries’ total manufacturing exports. > - Similar to exports, the weakness of China’s imports also has a bigger impact on emerging economies than developed ones. While China still needs to import high-tech products from rich industrialized economies, it imports very few low-tech goods, where developing countries would have a comparative advantage - a major argument China has been using to justify its role as an exporting country selling to the EU and the US.
- The Amazon Paper is fighting Degrowth now
Great news! It is clearly catching on in the states as well.
- How Degrowth Will Reshape Technologywww.thenation.com How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, tante on Europe, China, and the US tech sectors.
Jason Hickel appears on the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast
- Closer to Home - Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisisspectra.video Closer to Home - Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis
This 35-minute film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change. A film by Local Futures and Cyrus Sutton. Produced and dire...
- Three approaches to finding an alternative economic model - World Capital Instituteworldcapitalinstitute.org Three approaches to finding an alternative economic model - World Capital Institute
In the search for alternative economic models that are better suited to the requirements of our time, namely the management of a series of so-called...
- Civilization's Peak Power in 10 to 20 Years?yt.artemislena.eu Civilization's Peak Power in 10 to 20 Years?
Falling fertility rates in most of the world put us on track to reach the global peak rate of energy use ahead of the actual population peak, as early as 10 years from now if the trends of the last decade persist. Marking a major turning point, the decline of the post-peak world will involve many t...
- CDRCs: A proposal concerning work, resilience, and the repopulation of the countrysidewww.15-15-15.org CDRCs: A proposal concerning work, resilience, and the repopulation of the countryside
(Manuel Casal Lodeiro) Work sharing, the repopulation of the countryside, and the urgent recovery of resilience in the face of pending ecosocial collapse are objectives that can be pursued simultaneously and synergistically.
- Adopting A Steady State Economy To Protect Wild Nature With Brian Czechrewilding.org Episode 64: Adopting A Steady State Economy To Protect Wild Nature With Brian Czech
About Brian Czech Brian Czech is the founding president of the Center For The Advancement Of The Steady State Economy (CASSE). Czech served as the first conser
- Meet Cargonomia, the eco-friendly cooperative championing degrowth in Budapestkafkadesk.org Meet Cargonomia, the eco-friendly cooperative championing degrowth in Budapest
Budapest, Hungary – “Building your own furniture isn’t that complicated. There are plenty of participative workshops to learn how to do it yourself. We would have far enough material to build…
- Understanding the organisational dynamics and ethos of local degrowth cooperatives - npj Climate Actionwww.nature.com Understanding the organisational dynamics and ethos of local degrowth cooperatives - npj Climate Action
As a concept challenging the growth paradigm, degrowth is put into practice in different ways. Ones of which are degrowth-oriented cooperatives: organisations composed of producers and consumers that intend to keep a locally oriented focus and embrace more responsible economic practices to promote s...
- The Degrowth Toolbox For Artistic Practiceswww.degrowthtoolbox.net The Degrowth Toolbox For Artistic Practices
The Degrowth Toolbox for Artistic Practices was initiated in 2021 by Alexandra Papademetriou
- The radical combination of degrowth and basic incomewww.opendemocracy.net The radical combination of degrowth and basic income
We work too hard to produce too much stuff, and we’re destroying the planet in the process. An interview with Gabriela Cabaña, a doctoral student at the London School of Economics.
- Is Degrowth an Academic Field or a Mass Movement? Taking Degrowth to the People!goodmenproject.com Is Degrowth an Academic Field or a Mass Movement? Taking Degrowth to the People!
Sometimes I feel that degrowth is such a vague and ambiguous idea that I can simply create my own version.
- Shrink the Economy, Save the World? Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.www.nytimes.com Shrink the Economy, Save the World?
Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.
- What is nature worth? As Wall Street assigns a dollar value, Indigenous economics charts different pathnews.mongabay.com As Wall Street assigns a dollar value to nature, Indigenous economics charts different path
Putting a dollar amount on a single species, let alone entire ecosystems, is a controversial idea, but creating a tradable asset class based on that monetary value is even more problematic, experts say. In 2023, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) applied to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio...
- The term "degrowth" as political suicide?
I am a degrowther, but people keep telling me it's hard to create media communications campaigns for degrowth and that advocating for it is "political suicide." As if endless cancerous growth isn't political suicide already. I'm told people want growth and we should use a different name for degrowth and that we should make it palatable to the public. But degrowth is quite literally a critique of growth. Without this critique, it's just liberal wishywashing for a better future. So I'm at an impasse here. How do we talk about meaningfully talk about degrowth without watering down the message?
- Introducing the Mileage Fee Actsteadystate.org Introducing the Mileage Fee Act
CASSE's new Mileage Fee Act would assess fees for long-distance journeys, curbing Americans' long-haul travel and the ills it causes.
- Watching Population Bombwww.resilience.org Watching Population Bomb
As population bombs, perhaps there’s no explosion, but a whimper of modernity as the larger living world finds its voice again, accented by human song.
- SUVs made up 20% of global emissions growth and 55% of car sales globally in 2023
This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions.
Source IEA: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/suvs-are-setting-new-sales-records-each-year-and-so-are-their-emissions
- Deceleration: Notes on anarchism and degrowthfreedomnews.org.uk Deceleration: Notes on anarchism and degrowth - Freedom News
Capital is tearing at its seams and new insurrectional and revolutionary waves are emerging; it is now that anarchism can find a powerful ally in certain sectors of degrowth
- Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless
Source: https://norden.social/@hart/112513927064083221
- Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickelwww.planetcritical.com Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel
Listen now | Why putting people before profit is crucial in the battle to save our planet. Economic anthropologist, Jason Hickel, is one of the leading degrowth researchers, writers and thinkers leading the charge for ecosocialism. He says if we limit the energy demands of the elite and hungry multi...
- New Dutch right-wing coalition to cut research, innovation, and environmental protections
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> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15823220 > > > >### Four parties hammer out agreement filled with bad news for scientists > > > > ------------- > > > > >The nationalist, populist Party for Freedom, led by Geert Wilders, won 23% of the vote in the November 2023 House elections, putting Wilders—once a fringe figure who proposed a “head rag tax” on women wearing headscarves—close to the center of power. Since then, Wilders has been in contentious and often chaotic negotiations to form a government with three other parties, including the center-right party led by outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, which saw its electoral share shrink to 15%. The governing plan endorsed by the four parties, which marks a crucial step in forming a new government, includes a series of harsh anti-immigration measures. Centrist and left-wing parties fiercely criticized the plan during this week’s debate. > > > > -------------- > > > > >Another sharp turn comes in environmental policy. The Netherlands, a major agricultural exporter, has more farm animals per square kilometer than any other country in Europe, and their waste emits high levels of nitrogen compounds that violate EU rules and harm the country’s ecosystems. Past government plans to tackle the issue have triggered massive protests by farmers and the rise of a new party, the Farmer-Citizen Movement, that won 4.7% of the vote and is part of the new coalition. > > > >
- Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depressionsteadystate.org Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depression
The solution to the Great Depression was economic growth, but growth in today's world is largely uneconomic.
- How to Bring About Nowtopia and Degrowth? Erik Olin Wright’s Four Strategic Logics
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- Electoral strategy and the Solidarity Economy: An open letter to the Democratic leftwww.shareable.net Electoral strategy and the Solidarity Economy: An open letter to the Democratic left
Copenhagen, 1910. Here, at the bare beginnings of social democracy’s ascent in Europe, the socialist Second International passed a resolution supporting
- Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Degrowth - YouTube
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- A Shareable explainer: What is the Solidarity Economy?www.shareable.net A Shareable explainer: What is the Solidarity Economy?
We stand at a historic moment—a crossroads in the history of humanity and Mother Earth. Rarely has there been a convergence of so many crises, from
- Kohei Saito on Marx in the Anthropocene - Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
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- Arrested for Giving Gifts: Anticapitalist Santa Claus Protest in Copenhagen
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- ‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’www.theguardian.com ‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’
Amid the cost of living crisis and threats to the climate, many are pledging to consume less and spend sustainably