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Degrowth
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Any policy that reduces the incomes of the very rich will have a positive ecological benefit. And because the excess incomes of the rich win them nothing when it comes to welfare, this can be accomplished without any cost to social outcomes.
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― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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Under capital’s growth imperative, there is no horizon – no future point at which economists and politicians say we will have enough money or enough stuff. There is no end, in the double sense of the term: no maturity and no purpose. The unquestioned assumption is that growth can and should carry on for ever, for its own sake. It is astonishing, when you think about it, that the dominant belief in economics holds that no matter how rich a country has become, their GDP should keep rising, year af
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― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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