Publications

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

2023

Social outcomes of energy use in the United Kingdom: Household energy footprints and their links to well-being

Marta Baltruszewicz, Julia K. Steinberger, Jouni Paavola, Diana Ivanova, Lina I. Brand-Correa, Anne Owen

Ecological Economics

Well-Being, Living Cost and Food Survey, Understanding Society Survey, Final Energy, Household Energy Footprint, Multiregional Input–Output Analysis, Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Logistic Regression

2022

Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action

Stuart Capstick, Aaron Thierry, Emily Cox, Oscar Berglund, Steve Westlake & Julia K. Steinberger

Nature Climate Change

Advocacy, collective action, climate crisis, science neutrality

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

2022

Energy requirements and carbon emissions for a low-carbon energy transition

Aljoša Slameršak, Giorgos Kallis & Daniel W. O’Neill

Nature Communications

Carbon emissions, energy system, energy return on investment(IAM), energy transition, integrated assessment model (IAM)

2022

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

Jason Hickel, Christian Dorninger, Hanspeter Wieland, Intan Suwandi

Global Environmental Change

Unequal exchange, inequality, trade in value added, input-output analysis, embodied resource flows, international development

2022

Max-Neef and sustainability: theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions

Lina I. Brand-Correa, Julia K. Steinberger

International Journal of Sustainable Development

Max-Neef, sustainability, energy, human scale development, HSD, satisfiers, socio-technical provisioning systems

2022

Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean

Giorgos Kallis, Angelos Varvarousis, Panos Petridis

World Development

Southern thought, degrowth, post-development, frugal abundance, alternative economic practices, islands, islandness

2022

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Daniel Niles, Arnim Wiek, Michael Carolan, Giorgos Kallis, Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Astrid Mangnus, Petr Jehlička et al.

Nature Sustainability

Agrifood systems, sufficiency, regeneration, commons, care, education