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Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
Written by Kohei Saito
Narrated by Kohei Saito and Troy Glasgow
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This international bestseller argues for a return to a system of social ownership to restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDreamscape Media
TranslatorBrian Bergstrom
Release dateJan 9, 2024
ISBN9781666652253
Author
Kohei Saito
Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in philosophy from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2016. He was awarded the 2018 Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, the most prestigious academic award for Marxian studies, making him its youngest recipient. In 2020, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science awarded him the highly prestigious JSPS prize, awarded to the top 25 scholars in the entire country under the age of 45.
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