The Future is Degrowth
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.
Matthias Schmelzer Book order
Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian deeply engaged with the political economy of capitalism and social and environmental history. His work scrutinizes the roots of our obsession with economic growth and its implications for the climate catastrophe. Schmelzer analyzes how global institutions were shaped and how the growth paradigm was established throughout the 20th century. His research offers a critical perspective on current economic systems, seeking alternatives for a more sustainable future.
- 2022
- 2020
A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination.
- 2017
The Hegemony of Growth
- 396 pages
- 14 hours of reading
How did the pursuit of economic growth become the core goal of economic policymaking? Focussing on the OECD, Schmelzer offers a first transnational history of growth discourse, tracing how the methods employed to measure, model and prescribe growth resulted in new statistical standards, international policy frameworks and widely accepted norms.