Should We Accept Degrowth as a Serious Academic Concept?

Summary: Degrowth has gained influence by combining environmental concerns with calls for redistribution. Its central arguments, however, falsely assume that economic growth requires consuming more physical resources. Evidence suggests that economic growth can be decoupled from environmental harm, while greater economic freedom can improve social and ecological outcomes. Degrowth is more of a rhetorical strategy […] The post Should We Accept Degrowth as a Serious Academic Concept? appeared first on Human Progress.