In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12717034
AutoresMax Koch (0000-0003-0932-3570, Socialhögskolan, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, autor correspondente), H Buch-Hansen (0000-0002-8279-4179, Copenhagen Business School)
Ano2020
Volume18
Fascículo7
Páginas1219-1229
Data de publicação2020-08-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2020.1807837
OpenAlexW3080861472
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31
Referências citadas62

Against the backdrop of the ecological and climate emergencies and several other deep crises, advocates of degrowth call for democratic transitions towards societies that can thrive beyond economic growth within ecological boundaries while being socially equitable. In recent years, scholarship has emerged that brings together the emerging degrowth paradigm with insights from political economy. Yet much contemporary political economy continues to ignore the environment and, by implication, the ecological downsides of economic growth. The present contribution criticizes this state of affairs and highlights the promises of a synthesis of contemporary critical political economy and the growth-critical tradition in ecological economics. It hints at how concepts of one particular strand of critical political economy, namely regulation theory, may be of use in analyses of (trajectories to) the postgrowth era

Climate change · Degrowth · Democracy · Ecological economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · State (computer science · Sustainability · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Ecology