economics

Degrowth and our Post-Covid Future

April 8, 2020 April 9, 2020 By Mike Small
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When we launched the Degrowth Commission in Govan almost a year ago we knew we'd meet some resistance. The idea of "growth" is so hard-wired into our brains it's seen as an essential good.Growth is everything. Growth is deeply associated with progress, both social and personal. Growth is assumed to be the thing...

An economy for Scotland that’s better than growth?

June 30, 2019 July 2, 2019 By Katherine Trebeck
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Katherine Trebeck, author of The Economics of Arrival on why Scotland needs to embrace a de-growth agenda.In 1983 President Reagan declared, ‘There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits to human intelligence, imagination and wonder’. That was an era when students were striking against the risk of atomic war, when celebrities sang that aid and charity...