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- This policy brief situates and critically assesses the EU’s current militarisation drive through a systemic lens. Instead, it contextualises militarisation and war within the present politico‑economic conjuncture,
- Emilie Tricarico
April 2026
- Cosechas envenenadas, tierras y aguas contaminadas, y una población históricamente asfixiada. El ecocidio no es un crimen reconocido a nivel internacional, pero el contexto geopolítico parece pedirlo a gritos
- Feroz Khan
March 2026
- Desastres
- Degrowth gone wrong? These days everyone seems to think degrowth is heading the wrong way.
- Giorgos Kallis
March 2026
- Degrowth
- Opinion piece
- Central banks should stop pretending to be neutral about saving the planet.
- Jason Hickel, Charles Stevenson
February 2026
- What if perpetual economic growth is part of the problem, not the solution? Feroz Khan explores how degrowth and disaster justice could guide a more sustainable and equitable future.
- Feroz Khan
February 2026
- Julia Steinberger es profesora de Desafíos sociales del cambio climático en la Universidad de Lausana (Suiza), donde es docente e investigadora en economía ecológica.
- JULIA STEINBERGER
February 2026
- Donatella Gasparro is a PhD researcher in political ecology at the Scuola Normale Superiore and for the project “REAL – A post-growth deal” at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
- Donatella Gasparro
January 2026
- Opinion piece
- After more than ten years of involvement in agri-food matters from a bizarrely wide variety of angles – from organising farmers’ markets to studying agronomy, from sociological perspectives to ethnographic fieldwork in rural Italy, from Marxist agrarian studies to reviving abandoned olive groves, chainsaw in hand – I can say with a certain degree of confidence that food systems, technically, don’t exist.
- Donatella Gasparro
December 2025
- Engaged academics and high-level strategists from the climate movement met to discuss movement strategy during a European heatwave last June. They released their summary report today.
- FABIAN DABLANDER, OSCAR BERGLUND, DIPTI BHATNAGAR, JULIA STEINBERGER
November 2025
- Climate movement crisis, collaborative strategic thinking
- When I first read Erik Olin Wright, I was enthralled. Here was a Marxist for our times who refused to hide behind inscrutable jargon, who made the contradictions of our political and economic system so obvious, so irrefutable, that being anything other than an anti-capitalist in the 21st century appeared laughable.
- Charles Stevenson
October 2025
- politiclal strategy, rupture
- Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented.
- Donatella Gasparro, Daniele Vico
October 2025
- critique, Degrowth, pluralism
- Una jornada sobre decrecimiento reúne en el Congreso a activistas, académicos y algún político en busca de alternativas al modelo económico basado en el aumento del PIB
- JASON HICKEL, GIORGOS KALLIS
September 2025
- Degrowth, well-being
- Opinion piece
- China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.
- JASON HICKEL and DYLAN SULLIVAN
August 2025
- Global trade, North/South divide, technology
- Industrial policy is back – it’s currently central to the agendas of both the EU and the UK.
- RICHARD BÄRNTHALER and JASON HICKEL
June 2025
- essential services, foundational sectors, Industrial policy
- Blog
- I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years.
- JASON HICKEL
June 2025
- Climate crisis, economic democracy, energy reduction
- The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this.
- JULIA STEINBERGER
April 2025
- Accelerationism, cataclysm capitalism, disinformation
- The Global North’s exploitation of the atmosphere and resources has driven climate breakdown in an act of atmospheric colonisation. Jason Hickel unpacks the data, debunks myths, and outlines pathways to global ecological justice.
- JASON HICKEL
March 2025
- China, Ecological justice, North/South divide
- Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s.
- DYLAN SULLIVAN and JASON HICKEL
February 2025
- material resource use, Unequal exchange
- New research concludes that humanity would benefit more if it aims for ecological sustainability and stays within the limits of what Earth can provide, rather than pursuing relentless growth.
- Giorgos Kallis
February 2025
- Degrowth
- Donatella Gasparro is a PhD researcher in political ecology at the Scuola Normale Superiore and for the project “REAL – A post-growth deal” at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
- Donatella Gasparro
January 2025
- Uno de los conceptos que más polémica genera entre los economistas es el de decrecimiento. Mientras unos consideran que es imprescindible, otros lo tachan de utopía, aunque en medio existen muchos grises.
- GIORGOS KALLIS
January 2025
- Degrowth
- Per sortir del xoc emocional i dels clixés arran de la dana que ha arrasat València, anem a l’Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma a parlar amb tres especialistes en economia i política ecològiques
- GIORGOS KALLIS
November 2024
- Article in El País (in catalan)
- Today’s interdependent and aggravating social-ecological crises warrant a profound rethinking of our economic system. “Putting people and planet before profit” must not stay a slogan but become a reality.
- Elena Hofferberth, Matthias Schmelzer
November 2024
- Special issue on utopias
- We write these words from the student encampment for the liberation of Palestine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
- Charles Stevenson, Inea Lehner, Feroz Khan
October 2024
- boycott, Palestine
- The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring
- Jason Hickel, Morena Hanbury Lemos
August 2024
- Article in The Guardian
- Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods.
- Jason, Hickel; Michalis, Moatsos; Dylan, Sullivan
April 2024
- Blog post on measuring extreme poverty
- Opinion piece
- arrow_left sharing button The Limits of Basic Income Providing people with cash payments has benefits, but guaranteed employment and public services are a better option for transforming our economy.
- Jason Hickel
January 2024
- Universal Basic Income (UBI)
- Europe’s push to abandon capitalism is motivated by optimism about politics—and pessimism about everything else.
December 2023
- I want to make a brief intervention here to highlight an aspect of degrowth climate mitigation strategy that has so far been inadequately developed.
- Jason Hickel
December 2023
- Blog post on degrowth climate mitigation strategy
- La reciente crisis del sector eólico, la falta y los precios de ciertas materias primas y el declive de los fósiles disparan el interés por esta teoría. ¿Será inevitable decrecer?
- GIORGOS KALLIS
November 2023
- Is capitalism the problem? Experts weigh in on ways to address the great carbon divide.
- JASON HICKEL and JULIA STEINBERGER
November 2023
- Nous abordons aujourd’hui la question de la position des scientifiques dans l’engagement politique.
- JULIA STEINBERGER
September 2023
- Podcast
- Numerous scholars propose post-growth or doughnut economics as a vision for a desirable, just and ecologically restorative future.
- JULIA STEINBERGER, JASON HICKEL and GIORGOS KALLIS
August 2023
- Jason lays out the policies that ecosocialism should provide: universal public services, a public works program, and the job guarantee.
- JASON HICKEL
August 2023
- Interview in Real Progressives
- Numerous scholars propose post-growth or doughnut economics as a vision for a desirable, just and ecologically restorative future.
- JULIA STEINBERGER, JASON HICKEL and GIORGOS KALLIS
August 2023
- Interview in Circular Metabolism Podcast
- Degrowth is often presented as cultural transformation away from a society obsessed with growth as progress and towards pluriversal alternatives.
- Charles Stevenson
July 2023
- debt crisis, New Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), South/North divide
- Rachel Donald talks to scientists and activists who are turning to protest because of the gate-keepers in the media who refuse to cover their research.
- JULIA STEINBERGER
May 2023
- During the public lecture, Julia Steinberger will present her current research project “Living Well within Limits” and discuss questions such as What are the biophysical resources, more specifically energy, required to achieve human well-being?
- JULIA STEINBERGER
May 2023
- As Europe embraces clean energy to fight climate change, a leading ecological economist argues for going beyond “green growth”.
- GIORGOS KALLIS
May 2023
- …we, the undersigned academics and civil society organisations, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition…
- JASON HICKEL, GIORGOS KALLIS, JULIA STEINBERGER et al.
May 2023
- The Beyond Growth 2023 Conference is a multi-stakeholder event aiming to discuss and co-create policies for sustainable prosperity in Europe…
- JASON HICKEL
March 2023
- Video
- This panel aims to propose an integrated social-ecological approach to the design of a European future-fit economy…
- GIORGOS KALLIS
March 2023
- On July 5, 2015, at the height of the eurozone debt crisis, the Greek demos voted by a wide margin to turn down the bailout offered to them by their Troika of creditors – the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission.
- Charles Stevenson
February 2023
- capitalism, erratic Marxism, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
- Marxian political economists often criticise Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) for its lack of class analysis. While these critiques are right to point out that MMT has often been presented as the saviour of capitalism and growth, its insights are also of use to those who wish to see an end to capitalism and growth.
- Charles Stevenson, Ellen Helker-Nygren
January 2023
- Job Guarantee, Marxian political economy, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
- In October of this year Giorgos Kallis, Julia Steinberger and Jason Hickel were awarded 9.9 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) for a project titled Pathways towards post growth deals.
- GIORGOS KALLIS
December 2022
- Degrowth, ERC grant
