Category Archives: Degrowth Economics

Unprecedented Chinese Uprisings

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

China is no stranger to popular uprisings, but current protests in Guangdong province are unlike any in recent memory.  Activists in the village of Wukan have been fighting the corrupt seizure of land for commercial development for years, but when … Continue reading →

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Outsourcing Pollution

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

An unregulated global market repeatedly leads national environmental regulations toward the same outcome: pollution shifting to where it’s cheaper to pollute. Whether it’s European limits on carbon dioxide emissions shifting industrial production (and the associated emissions) to China or American … Continue reading →

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The BRICS, if they could choose, would they team-up with the “rich” or try to save the “poor”?

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Fábio Valenti Possamai

The Busan International Forum, taking place in South Korea, has been an expression of shifting geopolitical realities. In a contemporary scenario in which some (formerly) major countries regarding international politics are losing their influence upon the world, the BRICS’ rise … Continue reading →

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Hydrofracking Debate Spurs Huge Spending by Industry

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

I wonder to what extent the corporate impact on public policy is currently being taken into account in mainstream STS (Science, technology, and society) studies. Is attention being paid to the role of lobbying and advertising in driving innovation or … Continue reading →

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The Unbearable Lightness of Forgiveness

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

Rob Johnson, a former banker and former investment partner with George Soros, now heads the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He endorses debt reduction because social destruction is the great uncalculated cost of doing nothing. “There are so many … Continue reading →

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Rebels Without an Ideological Cause

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

It is clear (although perhaps not to Fox News viewers) that we are living in a moment of historic political resistance. The “Arab Spring” is convulsing the political regimes of the Middle East and the “Occupy” movement is emerging as … Continue reading →

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Media Coverage of Income Inequality Quintuples

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

Whatever the objectives of protesters involved in Occupy Wall Street, they have succeeded in engaging the country in a conversation about income inequality. A quick search of the news–including print articles, web stories and broadcast transcripts–via Nexis reveals a significant … Continue reading →

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Public Health vs. Corporate Profitability or: Why Science Cannot (And Does Not) Determine Policy

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

In his inaugural address, Mr. Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in making government environmental policy. He also pledged to revisit environmental rules set by the administration of George W. Bush that his administration felt were too weak. The … Continue reading →

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Bloomberg Sows the Wind

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

But will he reap the whirlwind? By evicting the Wall Street Occupiers from Zuccotti Park in a nighttime military-style raid, Mayor Bloomberg has garnered global headlines for the Occupy Movement yet again: There is a high likelihood that the Occupy … Continue reading →

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Economic Inequality: Back to the Future

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Alexander Mosiak

The World Top Incomes Database illustrates just how different post-WWII calls for “austerity” were from those of today (h/t Paul Krugman). Hint: shared sacrifice. Top 1% Income Share (US)

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Escaping Neo-Liberalism: Degrowth economics

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Keith Brown

If the South is to attempt to create non-growth societies, it must rethink and re-localise. Southern countries need to escape from their economic and cultural dependence on the North and rediscover their own histories – interrupted by colonialism, development and … Continue reading →

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