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- Kolumbijská levice těsně prohrála prezidentské volby. Hnutí, které vyneslo k moci končícího prezidenta Gustava Petra, ale zůstává silné. O odkazu jeho vlády či budoucnosti ekosocialismu jsme hovořili se sociologem Václavem Maškem Sánchezem.
- Václav Mašek Sánchez
July 2026
- colombia
- On this episode, Adam talks with economist Omer Tayyab about nationalizing industries, economic warfare against the Global South, neoliberalism, international working-class solidarity, and more.
- Omer Tayyab
July 2026
- Degrowth, nationalizing
- Vivimos en una sociedad en movimiento, enmarcada en estructuras de poder, tecnología y geopolítica que facilitan o dificultan la movilidad. ¿Cuál es el papel del turismo y de otras poblaciones temporales?. ¿Hacia dónde debe virar el modelo de movilidad turística para un mayor compromiso con la justicia social y ecológica?
- Angelos Varvarousis, Agustín Cocola-Gant, Michele Catanzaro, Mimi Sheller
July 2026
- just transition
- Alors que la votation du 14 juin sur la Suisse à dix millions approche, trois économistes de l'Université de Lausanne, dont la chercheuse et militante Julia Steinberger, appellent à ne pas se laisser aveugler par la stratégie de l'UDC. Les problèmes que l'initiative prétend résoudre ne sont que des prétextes pour cibler l'immigration.
- Vivien Fisch-Romito, Lorenz Keysser, Julia Steinberger
June 2026
- migration
- Opinion piece
- En Colombia, el ultraderechista Abelardo de la Espriella superó en la primera vuelta por 660 mil sufragios a Iván Cepeda, candidato del Pacto Histórico.
- Vaclav Masek Sánchez
June 2026
- colombia
- Report draws criticism from representative body Digital Infrastructure Ireland, which says data centres ‘vital’.
- Seán Fearon
May 2026
- datacentre
- Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests.
- Seán Fearon
May 2026
- datacentre
- Watch the IDS Annual Lecture 2026 delivered by world-renowned political economist and author Professor Jason Hickel. His lecture discusses ‘Capitalism, ecology, and class struggle in the 21st century’, confronting the critical question of how can we increase prosperity for all and protect the planet at the same time?
- Jason Hickel
May 2026
- capitalism, class struggle, ecology
- La majoria de propostes per combatre la crisi climàtica parteixen d'una mateixa idea: que l economia ha de continuar creixent. Però mantenen les desigualtats socials.
- Giorgos Kallis, Aljoša Slameršak
April 2026
- Degrowth, well-being
- "Post-growth planning is not happening on the grid; it's something which happens in the mindsets of people". Discussing spatial, social, and emotional aspects of degrowth in rural areas throughout Europe. Understanding 'the backbone of human survival' and distinct narratives and experiences in rural areas and small municipalities.
- Julia Grosinger
April 2026
- place attachment, rural areas, spatial planning
- Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla asks political economist Jason Hickel whether Global South states can take back their sovereignty.
- Jason Hickel, Varsha Gandikota
April 2026
- capitalism, imperialism, North/South divide
- Video
- Eradicating poverty beyond growth: A global roadmap for a new economy
- Jason Hickel
April 2026
- Degrowth, poverty
- Els ulls de tothom es troben a l'estret d'Ormuz, ja que el 28 de febrer l'Iran va decidir tancar-lo. Una determinació que va fer pels atacs conjunts rebuts pels Estats Units i Israel. No obstant això, les seves implicacions no es limiten només al pla geopolític.
- Feroz Khan
April 2026
- geopolitics, Global trade
- In this episode we're joined again by Jason Hickel for a conversation on Palestine and the role that Palestinian liberation plays in the global fight against imperialism and capitalism. The conversation opens with a discussion on why Palestinian liberation is a threat to capitalism globally—we unpack the role that Palestine plays geopolitically in West Asia and the role that West Asia plays in global capital accumulation. We go on to talk about Israel's role as the US's proxy force and attack dog, not just in West Asia, but throughout the globe as well, from Argentina to Guatemala.
- Jason Hickel
April 2026
- Palestine
- Un estudio determina que es posible garantizar bienestar y un clima seguro reorientando el sistema económico.
- Aljoša Slameršak
April 2026
- Degrowth, well-being
- 'Alternative Futures' reports back from the brink of our extractive collapse with inspiring models capable of remaking our economies around things that actually matter: Health and well-being—for us, and the planet that sustains us.
- Aljoša Slameršak
April 2026
- well-being
- 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
- Chiamarla “decrescita felice” l’ha resa simpatica. E forse anche innocua. Ma dietro quella parola c’è una delle teorie più radicali e scomode dell’economia politica contemporanea. Secondo la decrescita, i Paesi più ricchi dovrebbero ridurre deliberatamente la produzione e il consumo di risorse — non come effetto di una crisi, ma come scelta consapevole in risposta agli impatti sociali e ambientali negativi del sistema di accumulazione capitalistica, incapace di produrre benessere diffuso e garantire un futuro vivibile sul pianeta.
- Donatella Gasparro
March 2026
- Degrowth, well-being
- Un estudio liderado por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona muestra que el desarrollo perpetuo no es necesario si se prioriza la redistribución de la riqueza y la producción de los recursos esenciales.
- Aljoša Slameršak
March 2026
- Degrowth, well-being
- Degrowth gone wrong? These days everyone seems to think degrowth is heading the wrong way.
- Giorgos Kallis
March 2026
- Degrowth
- Jason Hickel: “Os ricos estão a conduzir-nos para a destruição e não se importam” Para o antropólogo, a crise climática expõe os limites do capitalismo. Sem democratizar a produção e limitar o poder das elites económicas, não haverá resposta eficaz para o aquecimento global, diz.
- Jason Hickel
March 2026
- capitalism, Climate crisis
- Opinion piece
- Central banks should stop pretending to be neutral about saving the planet.
- Jason Hickel, Charles Stevenson
February 2026
- Collapse will never constitute a unified global phenomenon. To believe that climate-induced crop failures will induce famine amongst Europe’s labour aristocracy anytime soon is to forget the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Charles Stevenson
February 2026
- Collapse, Strategy
- 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
- Podcast
- Since the 1960s, global GDP has been rapidly rising and living standards have reached record highs. But something else has been rocketing up too – carbon emissions. For years, scientists and economists have been asking: is it possible to grow without heating and polluting the Earth? And as the climate becomes more unstable, the issue is only becoming more urgent. Madeleine Finlay hears from two economists arguing for a change in how we measure a country’s success. Nick Stern is professor of economics and government at the London School of Economics and an advocate of green growth, an approach to growth that prioritises green industry. Jason Hickel is a political economist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona who advocates degrowth, shrinking parts of the economy that do not advance our social and ecological goals.
- Jason Hickel
February 2026
- Climate crisis, Degrowth
- O professor universitário Jason Hickel, conhecido pela sua análise da economia global, da desigualdade e dos sistemas de poder que a sustentam, acredita que “os EUA nunca consideraram a Europa um aliado, mas uma posição avançada para o Leste”. Em entrevista ao Expresso, o antropólogo, que dá aulas na Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona, apela à indepedência e à soberania europeia. “Qualquer pessoa inteligente na Europa reconhecerá que este é o momento De Gaulle”
- Jason Hickel
February 2026
- imperialism
- Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp
- Jason Hickel, Yanis Varoufakis
February 2026
- capitalism, Degrowth
- 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
- Molts liberals occidentals creuen que els EUA han fet un gir fosc i particularment malvat, però sempre s'han comportat d'aquesta manera. No importa una administració republicana o demòcrata, perquè és una dinàmica estructural de la posició dels EUA a l'economia mundial que no es rectificarà. La història dels EUA és de potència imperial, i la relació amb Amèrica Llatina sempre ha estat d'antagonisme i invasió.
- Jason Hickel
January 2026
- imperialism
- Opinion piece
- El nuevo militarismo estadounidense es una campaña para extraer los recursos del hemisferio. Y esta búsqueda de beneficios y poder a través del control de los recursos a menudo conducirá a la desposesión de los más vulnerables, todo ello justificado por poderosos actores estatales y corporativos que emplean desde ya estrategias autoritarias y nacionalistas.
- Vaclav Masek Sánchez
January 2026
- imperialism, militarism
- 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
- 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. Her research centers on non-monetized economies of self-provisioning and social arrangements of reciprocity as they persist in remote rural areas of Southern Italy.
- Donatella Gasparro
January 2026
- capitalism, Degrowth, food systems
- 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
- If you're curious about how to build a world that actually works for people and planet, this one’s for you.
- Omer Tayyab
December 2025
- capitalism, Degrowth
- Opinion piece
- Cuando escuchamos las noticias del ataque estadounidense del 2 de septiembre contra una embarcación venezolana, muchos guatemaltecos sentimos un escalofrío familiar. No es la primera vez que vemos buques de guerra extranjeros surcar nuestro mar Caribe con la excusa de un “mal mayor”. La historia de América Latina está plagada de intervenciones que, bajo la bandera de la democracia, la lucha contra el comunismo o, como ahora, el narcotráfico, han dejado tras de sí una estela de inestabilidad, dolor y soberanías vulneradas.
- Vaclav Masek Sánchez
November 2025
- imperialism, militarism
- 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
- Opinion piece
- La COP d’enguany van reunir per 30a vegada les parts de la Convenció Marc de les Nacions Unides sobre el Canvi Climàtic signada a Rio de Janeiro, el 1992. En aquella mateixa ocasió, també es van signar acords sobre la protecció de la biodiversitat i la lluita contra la desertificació — que tenen les seves pròpies “COPs”, menys famoses que la seva germana climàtica. El 2015, la COP21 va produir l’Acord de París, en què per primera vegada els països signants es comprometien a reduir emissions de gasos d’efecte hivernacle per limitar l’escalfament global a 1,5 ºC i a tota costa per sota dels 2 ºC. Han passat deu anys, i han passat moltes coses, però no pas la reducció d’emissions. Al contrari: continuen creixent i la temperatura ja està oficialment per sobre de la meta d’1,5 ºC.
- Bruno Palombini Gastal
November 2025
- Climate crisis, COP30
- 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
- Indus Conclave organized by Punjab Group | Renowned Scholars and Analysts addressing different topics including Climate Change, Pakistan in Digital Age, News and Bias, Art, Pakistan at 78, Pakistani Writing, Pakistan's Place in the region, Pakistan Music and Much More.
- Omer Tayyab
October 2025
- Degrowth, pakistan
- Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
- Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab
September 2025
- imperialism, North/South divide
- 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
- Rethinking growth is key to survival in a rapidly collapsing climate
- Omer Tayyab
August 2025
- Degrowth
- 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
