WE TOOK DEGROWTH SERIOUSLY?
Feb 13, 2022
2 minutes
Continual cumulative growth is the central hegemonic pillar of mainstream economics. Growth – an accelerating frenzy of material production and economic activities – is seen as the only guarantor of security and abundance for all. It actually achieves the reverse.
Capitalism’s organizing principle is put with elegant simplicity by economic anthropologist Jason Hickel thus: ‘Take more than you give back.’ Growth is all about this accumulation, the creation
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