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Giacomo D´alisa - Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era - 9781138000773 - V9781138000773
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Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

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Description for Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era Paperback. Editor(s): D'Alisa, Giacomo; Demaria, Federico; Kallis, Giorgos. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GTF; KCN; RNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.

This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful forintervening in current political debates and for bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global.

The result is the ... Read more

More information at: vocabulary.degrowth.org

View the author spotlight featuring events and press related to degrowth at http://t.co/k9qbQpyuYp.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138000773
SKU
V9781138000773
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3

About Giacomo D´alisa
Giacomo D'Alisa is Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Federico Demaria is a PhD candidate at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Giorgios Kallis is Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.  The three editors are members of Research & Degrowth, ... Read more

Reviews for Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era
‘One of the most thorough and insightful presentations and discussion of economic theory and practice in the field of de-growth economics, a revolutionary attempt to understand the economy as if humans and Nature matter.’
Manuel Castells, University of California, Berkeley, USA ‘At a time in history when political, economic and intellectual leaders assure us that nothing fundamental can ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era


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