Category Archives: Degrowth
Degrowth & Its Critics #4 – Kōhei Saitō
Kōhei Saitō is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. His book, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, was published in 2020, with the first English edition appearing in 2024. In it, Saitō draws primarily on Marx’s later work … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #3 – Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel is Professor of Political Science & Public Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His 2020 book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, provides a succinct history of capitalism, an account of its impacts on … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #2 – Jason W. Moore et al
Jason W. Moore is Professor of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton, where he coordinates the World-Ecology Research Collective. His 2016 volume, Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism, features essays on how the climate crisis ought to be … Continue reading
Degrowth & Its Critics #1 – McNeill and Engelke
John R. McNeill is Distinguished University Professor of History and Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Peter Engelke is Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Snowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In their 2014 book, The Great Acceleration: A History of … Continue reading
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