Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281436 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Basic Papers No. 02/2022
Publisher: 
Forum for a New Economy, Berlin
Abstract: 
Arguments about the possibility and desirability of exponential economic growth have animated the environmental movement for half a century, since the publication of the Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth in 1972. The debate has been revived in recent years as the climate crisis has reached centre-stage. This paper seeks to unpick the different strands in the debate and the different kinds of arguments - philosophical, empirical, and policy-prescriptive - used by different writers and institutions. It suggests that the contemporary debate is best understood as a disagreement between political strategies, in which the character of public and academic discourse plays a key role.
Subjects: 
economic growth
green growth
degrowth
post-growth
wellbeing
GDP
JEL: 
O4
O44
Q45
Q56
Document Type: 
Research Report
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