Corporate Degrowth

In a recent blog entry, Saamah Abdallah commented on some remarks made by Duncan Green on the Oxfam blogs, as regards degrowth policy. Duncan’s original post was critical on the practical conclusions of a workshop on degrowth in London earlier this year. Myself, I was giving a talk there on “Degrowth and the Firm” and tried to give some empirical substantiations as what a degrowth business model might look like.

Saamah gives three direct policy implications for degrowth:

  1. Reduction of working hours.
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Sustainable Lifestyles @ KIT

The mysteries of blogging… My first article about my talk at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) suddenly disappeared because this scientist here definitely is a learner as regards blogging 😉
Anyway, I wanted to readdress the issue I was raising: When talking about sustainable lifestyles, the question often revolves around the issue of “what type of people do we need for that?” or “what kind of education is necessary?” In my point of view, this is pointing into the wrong directions.… Read more