In an era of economic crisis, growth seems indispensable. Not so, argues "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era", which distinguishes recession from degrowth.
Degrowth involves new ways of organizing society to live prosperously without being obsessed with growth. “Degrowth” includes 50 chapters on the limits and pitfalls of growth as well as on concrete social and policy alternatives.
Chapters are written by an international set of scholars, including leading academics such as Juliet Schor, Tim Jackson, Serge Latouche, Susan Paulson, Joan Martinez-Alier and Arturo Escobar. ICTA hosts one of the first teaching and research initiatives in the world in the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics, and a research group that has grown to be the world´s reference in the field of degrowth, called Research & Degrowth.
The book is available in bookstores and online book outlets and its editors aspire that it will change “the way we think, see, and speak of the economy and of our role in it.”