Samuel Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4057-735X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reply to Futures regarding Diesendorf response to Floyd et al., “Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario
Grave Matters
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario
Suburban Practices of Energy Descent
This article proceeds on the basis that the cost of energy will rise in coming years and decades as the age of fossil energy abundance comes to an end. Given the close connection between energy and economic activity, we also assume that declining energy availability and affordability will lead to economic contraction and reduced material affluence. In overconsuming and overdeveloped nations, such resource and energy “degrowth” is desirable and ne…
Urban Awakenings
Degrowth in the Suburbs
The livestock sector and planetary boundaries
A Critique of the Australian National Outlook Decoupling Strategy
Voluntary Simplicity Movement
The voluntary simplicity movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social movement made up of people who are resisting high consumption lifestyles and who are seeking, in various ways, a lower consumption but higher quality of life alternative. Variously defended by its advocates on personal, social, humanitarian, ecological, and even spiritual grounds, voluntary simplicity is based on the assumption that human beings can live meaningful, f…
Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
For several decades Ted Trainer has been developing and refining an important theory of societal change, which he calls The Simpler Way (1985, 1995, 2010a). His essential premise is that overconsum
Voluntary Simplicity and the Social Reconstruction of Law
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social movement made up of people who are resisting high consumption lifestyles and who are seeking, in various ways, a lower consumption but higher quality of life alternative. The central argument of this paper is that the Voluntary Simplicity Movement or something like it will almost certainly need to expand, organise, radicalise and politicise, if anything resembling a d…
An axiomatic version of Fitch’s paradox
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement
Overconsumption in affluent societies is the root or contributing cause of many of the world’s most pressing problems, including environmental degradation, global poverty, peak oil and consumer malaise. This suggests that any transition to a sustainable and just society will require those who are overconsuming to move to far more materially ‘simple’ lifestyles. The Voluntary Simplicity Movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social moveme…
Peak Oil and the Twilight of Growth
This article is an invitation for lawyers to consider two interrelated subjects that have received almost no attention within the legal academy (neither in Australia nor beyond) but which undoubtedly have, or will have, significant legal implications. The subjects to which I refer are 'peak oil,' on the one hand, and 'post-growth economics,' on the other. Through an introductory examination of these subjects, this article will explore the hypothe…
Planned economic contraction
The sociological, ecological, and economic foundations of a macroeconomics 'beyond growth' are outlined, focusing on the idea of degrowth. Degrowth opposes conventional growth economics on the grounds that growth in the highly developed nations has become socially counter-productive, ecologically unsustainable, and uneconomic. Stagnating energy supplies also suggest an imminent 'end of growth'. In response to growth economics, degrowth scholars c…
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement
Voluntary simplicity - otherwise known as 'downshifting' or just 'simple living' - is an anticonsumerist way of life that opposes the high consumption lifestyles prevalent in consumer societies today and voluntarily embraces 'a simpler life' of reduced consumption. As a practical matter, this living strategy characteristically involves providing for material needs as simply and directly as possible, minimizing expenditure on consumer goods and se…
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement
Overconsumption in affluent societies is the root or contributing cause of many of the world’s most pressing problems, including environmental degradation, global poverty, peak oil and consumer malaise. This suggests that any transition to a sustainable and just society will require those who are overconsuming to move to far more materially ‘simple’ lifestyles. The Voluntary Simplicity Movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social moveme…
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario
Planned economic contraction
The sociological, ecological, and economic foundations of a macroeconomics 'beyond growth' are outlined, focusing on the idea of degrowth. Degrowth opposes conventional growth economics on the grounds that growth in the highly developed nations has become socially counter-productive, ecologically unsustainable, and uneconomic. Stagnating energy supplies also suggest an imminent 'end of growth'. In response to growth economics, degrowth scholars c…
Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
For several decades Ted Trainer has been developing and refining an important theory of societal change, which he calls The Simpler Way (1985, 1995, 2010a). His essential premise is that overconsum
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement
Voluntary simplicity - otherwise known as 'downshifting' or just 'simple living' - is an anticonsumerist way of life that opposes the high consumption lifestyles prevalent in consumer societies today and voluntarily embraces 'a simpler life' of reduced consumption. As a practical matter, this living strategy characteristically involves providing for material needs as simply and directly as possible, minimizing expenditure on consumer goods and se…
Suburban Practices of Energy Descent
This article proceeds on the basis that the cost of energy will rise in coming years and decades as the age of fossil energy abundance comes to an end. Given the close connection between energy and economic activity, we also assume that declining energy availability and affordability will lead to economic contraction and reduced material affluence. In overconsuming and overdeveloped nations, such resource and energy “degrowth” is desirable and ne…
Voluntary Simplicity Movement
The voluntary simplicity movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social movement made up of people who are resisting high consumption lifestyles and who are seeking, in various ways, a lower consumption but higher quality of life alternative. Variously defended by its advocates on personal, social, humanitarian, ecological, and even spiritual grounds, voluntary simplicity is based on the assumption that human beings can live meaningful, f…
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement
Voluntary simplicity - otherwise known as 'downshifting' or just 'simple living' - is an anticonsumerist way of life that opposes the high consumption lifestyles prevalent in consumer societies today and voluntarily embraces 'a simpler life' of reduced consumption. As a practical matter, this living strategy characteristically involves providing for material needs as simply and directly as possible, minimizing expenditure on consumer goods and se…
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement
Overconsumption in affluent societies is the root or contributing cause of many of the world’s most pressing problems, including environmental degradation, global poverty, peak oil and consumer malaise. This suggests that any transition to a sustainable and just society will require those who are overconsuming to move to far more materially ‘simple’ lifestyles. The Voluntary Simplicity Movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social moveme…
Peak Oil and the Twilight of Growth
This article is an invitation for lawyers to consider two interrelated subjects that have received almost no attention within the legal academy (neither in Australia nor beyond) but which undoubtedly have, or will have, significant legal implications. The subjects to which I refer are 'peak oil,' on the one hand, and 'post-growth economics,' on the other. Through an introductory examination of these subjects, this article will explore the hypothe…
Planned economic contraction
The sociological, ecological, and economic foundations of a macroeconomics 'beyond growth' are outlined, focusing on the idea of degrowth. Degrowth opposes conventional growth economics on the grounds that growth in the highly developed nations has become socially counter-productive, ecologically unsustainable, and uneconomic. Stagnating energy supplies also suggest an imminent 'end of growth'. In response to growth economics, degrowth scholars c…
Voluntary Simplicity and the Social Reconstruction of Law
The Voluntary Simplicity Movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social movement made up of people who are resisting high consumption lifestyles and who are seeking, in various ways, a lower consumption but higher quality of life alternative. The central argument of this paper is that the Voluntary Simplicity Movement or something like it will almost certainly need to expand, organise, radicalise and politicise, if anything resembling a d…
An axiomatic version of Fitch’s paradox
Ted Trainer and the Simpler Way
For several decades Ted Trainer has been developing and refining an important theory of societal change, which he calls The Simpler Way (1985, 1995, 2010a). His essential premise is that overconsum
Voluntary Simplicity Movement
The voluntary simplicity movement can be understood broadly as a diverse social movement made up of people who are resisting high consumption lifestyles and who are seeking, in various ways, a lower consumption but higher quality of life alternative. Variously defended by its advocates on personal, social, humanitarian, ecological, and even spiritual grounds, voluntary simplicity is based on the assumption that human beings can live meaningful, f…
A Critique of the Australian National Outlook Decoupling Strategy
Degrowth in the Suburbs
The livestock sector and planetary boundaries
Grave Matters
Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario
Suburban Practices of Energy Descent
This article proceeds on the basis that the cost of energy will rise in coming years and decades as the age of fossil energy abundance comes to an end. Given the close connection between energy and economic activity, we also assume that declining energy availability and affordability will lead to economic contraction and reduced material affluence. In overconsuming and overdeveloped nations, such resource and energy “degrowth” is desirable and ne…
Urban Awakenings
Reply to Futures regarding Diesendorf response to Floyd et al., “Energy descent as a post-carbon transition scenario
Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sustainability (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)