Publications

2025

Human need satisfaction enables decoupling of well-being from income

Lea Tamberg, Julia Steinberger, Viktoria Cologna, Vivien Fisch-Romito, Joel Millward-Hopkins, Flavio Calvo, Naomi Oreskes

Pre-print

Basic human needs, growth, post-growth

2025

The Work of Nations -Labor Footprints and Unequal Exchange

Suryadeepto Nag, Julia Steinberger, Yannick Oswald

Pre-print

Working time, labor footprints, international trade, unequal exchange, world-systems theory

2025

The impact of wealth inequality on carbon emissions and climate policy

James Morrison, Jeroen van den Bergh, Giorgos Kallis

Climate Policy

Elites, investment, status consumption, wealth taxs

2025

Artificial Utopia: Simulation and artificially intelligent agents for exploring Utopian and democratized futures

Yannick Oswald

Futures

Utopia, democratization, computational simulation, artificial intelligence, political economy, future studies

2025

Increasing inequality in agri-food value chains: global trends from 1995-2020

Meghna Goyal, Jason Hickel, Praveen Jha

Global Food Security

Value chain, food systems, distribution, agriculture, unequal exchange

2025

The Value Theory of Labour from a Socio-Ecological Reproduction Perspective

Raffaele Guarino & Zehra Taşdemir Yaşın

Capitalism Nature Socialism

Labour theory of value, energy-labour, social metabolism, socio-ecological organisation of labour, non-human labour

2025

Quantifying minimum mobility and transport needs: The who, the where and the why

Marlin Arnz, Zakia Soomauroo, Vivien Fisch-Romito, Jihoon Min, Joel Millward-Hopkins, Paul Natsuo Kishimoto, Benigna Boza-Kiss, Caroline Zimm, Bas van Ruijven

Energy Research & Social Science

Passenger transport model, sufficiency

decent living standards (DLS), mobility justice,

essential travel needs

2025

Wachstumsabhängigkeit als eine Frage der Machtverhältnisse: Ein realistischer Ansatz in Anwendung auf Japan

Riwan Driouich

Metropolis Verlag (German)

Growth dependence, Social reproduction, Régulation theory, Japan

2025

Economic growth dependencies and imperatives: A review of key theories and their conflicts

Lorenz Keyßer, Julia Steinberger and Matthias Schmelzer

Ecological Economics

Growth imperative, growth dependency, growth independence, literature review

2025

A progressive framework for green industrial policy

Jostein Hauge, Jason Hickel

New Political Economy

Industrial policy, ecological economics, production

2025

Degrowth: a new logic for the global economy

Omer Tayyab, Meghna Goyal, Morena Hanbury Lemos, Jason Hickel

the BMJ

North/South divide, material- and energy reduction, reparations

2025

Transitioning to Post-Growth Cities

Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, Maria Kaika

Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy

Post-growth, urban planning, policies

2025

Is growth in consumption occurring where it is most needed? An empirical analysis of current energy and material trends

Joel Millward-Hopkins, Jason Hickel, Suryadeepto Nag

The Lancet Planetary Health

Decent living standards (DLS), North/South divide, inequality

2025

A call for psychological and behavioural science on degrowth

Dario Krpan, Frédéric Basso, Dallas O’ Dell, Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis

Nature Human Behaviour

Psychology, behavioural science, /p>

2025

Sustaining power through economic growth: A Régulation theory of growth dependence

Riwan Driouich, Giorgos Kallis

Ecological Economics

Growth dependence, Social reproduction, Régulation theory

2025

Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals

Richard Bärnthaler, Sebastian Mang and Jason Hickel

Pre-print

Green economic planning, geopolitics, sufficiency, strategic autonomy

2025

Artificial Utopia: Simulation and Intelligent Agents for a Democratised Future

Yannick Oswald

Pre-print

Multiagent systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), computers and society

2025

We have to talk about overconsumption (in three different ways)

Joel Millward-Hopkins, Vivien Fisch-Romito

Environmental Research Letters

Overconsumption, political implications, fairness, satiation, sustainability

2025

Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth

Elena Hofferberth, Cedric Durand and Matthias Schmelzer

Book chapter

Creative Construction Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond (edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg)

2025

Post-growth economics as a guide for systemic change: Theoretical and methodological foundations

Elena Hofferberth

Ecological Economics

Social-ecological transformation, Systemic change, Capitalism, Marxian political economy, Growth (in)dependence,

Eco-feminism

2025

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries

Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel, Daniel W. O´Neill, Tim Jackson, Peter A.Victor, Kate Raworth, Juliet B. Schor, Julia Steinberger, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

The Lancet Planetary Health

Review

2025

Public support for degrowth policies and sufficiency behaviours in the United States: A discrete choice experiment

Dallas O´Dell, Davide Contu, Ganga Shreedhar

Ecological Economics

Sufficiency, behaviour, degrowth, policy support, public acceptability, discrete choice experiment

2024

Beyond the urban shift: towards a relational degrowth spatial politics

Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, Claudio Cattaneo, Filka Sekulova, Marula Tsagkari, Aljoša Slameršak, Marta Conde, Giacomo D´Alisa, Ksenija Hanaček, Brototi Roy

Sustainability Science

Degrowth spatial politics, urban-rural interconnectedness, rural transformation, urban shift,

2024

Global Income Convergence in a Climate‐Constrained World

Yannick Oswald

Preprint

North-South convergence, climate economics, socio-economic scenarios, ecological economics

2024

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan

World Development Perspectives

Provisioning, decent living standards (DLS) decommodification, decarbonization

2024

Capital as world-economy: Dale Tomich’s distinctive contribution to the world-historical method

Zehra Taşdemir Yaşın

Cultural dynamics

World economy, historical theory, world system theory,

2024

Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy

Jason Hickel, Morena Hanbury Lemos, Felix Barbour

Nature communications

Labour, wages, north-south divide

2024

Democratizing provisioning systems: a prerequisite for living well within limits

Julia Steinberger, Gauthier Guerin, Elena Hofferberth, Elke Pirgmaier

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

Economic democracy, human needs, provisioning systems, organizational logics

2024

Large inequalities in climate mitigation scenarios are not supported by theories of distributive justice

Joel Milllward-Hopkins, Yamina Saheb, Jason Hickel

Energie Research & Social Science

Climate mitigation, distributional justice, energy inequality, integrated assessment modelling (IAM)

2024

Confronting the dilemma of growth. A response to Warlenius

Tim Jackson, Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis

Ecological Economics

Post-growth, pysical scale, decoupling, IPAT

2024

Post-growth: A viable path to limiting global warming to 1.5°C

Aljoša Slameršak, Giorgos Kallis, Daniel W. O’Neill and Jason Hickel

One Earth 7

Post-growth, global warming, climate mitigation scenarios

2024

Safeguarding livelihoods against reductions in economic output

Jefim Vogel, Gauthier Guerin, Daniel W. O’Neill, Julia K. Steinberger

Ecological Economics

Livelihoods, Economic growth dependence, Post-growth, Sustainable welfare, Profit maximisation, Eco-social policies

2023

Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry

A. Katharina Keil and Julia K. Steinberger

New Political Economy

Automobile industry, powertrain electrification, capitalist tendencies, appropriation, technological dynamism

2023

Decentralized green energy transition promotes peace

Dominic Rohner, Michael Lehning, Julia Steinberger, Nicolas Tetreault, Evelina Trutnevyte

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Energy, conflict, fossil fuels, green transition, decentralization, climate change, global warming

2023

Degrowth and the Barcelona School

Giorgos Kallis

Springer

Degrowth, activist community, political ecology, ecological economics

2023

How to pay for saving the world: Modern Monetary Theory for a degrowth transition

Christopher Olk, Colleen Schneider, Jason Hickel

Ecological Economics

Degrowth, modern monetary theory (MMT)m ecological macroeconomics, fiscal policy, universal public services, job guarantee

2023

Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament

Giorgos Kallis, Riccardo Mastini & Christos Zografos

Nature Sustainability

Degrowth, EU parliament, Q methodology, green growth, radical sustainability opinions

2023

Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries

Jefim Vogel, Jason Hickel

The Lancet Planetary Health

Paris Agreement, absolute decoupling, post-growth demand-reduction strategies

2023

Integrated assessment modelling of degrowth scenarios for Australia

Mengyu Li, Lorenz Keyßer, Jarmo S. Kikstra, Jason Hickel, Paul E. Brockway, Nicolas Dai, Arunima Malik, Manfred Lenzen

Economic Systems Research

Integrated assessment models (IAM), utility function, degrowth, energy-economy decoupling, post-growth

2022

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Julia K. Steinberger, Peter A. Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz

Nature

Degrowth, public services, green jobs guarantee, working time reduction, growth dependencies