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Degrowth
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When capital has bumped up against limits to profit-growth in the past, it has found fixes in things like colonisation, structural adjustment programmes, wars, restrictive patent laws, nefarious debt instruments, land grabs, privatisation, and enclosing commons like water and seeds. Why would it be any different this time? Indeed, a study by the ecological economist Beth Stratford finds that when capital faces resource constraints, this is exactly what happens: it turns to aggressive rent-seekin
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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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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
Degrowth is a movement that pushes for the downscaling of over-industrialized economies for the …more
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