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negative growth (i.e. areduction ) of aneconomy or apopulation - noun A
political ,economic , andsocial movement based onecological economics andanticonsumerist andanticapitalist ideas.
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Examples
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BUCHAREST, Apr 14, 2010 (IPS) - The global financial crisis offered an opportunity to reform the economic system and participants in a conference on 'degrowth' in Barcelona, last week, appeared determined not to lose it.
IPS Inter Press Service Claudia Ciobanu 2010
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BUCHAREST, Apr 14, 2010 (IPS) - The global financial crisis offered an opportunity to reform the economic system and participants in a conference on 'degrowth' in Barcelona, last week, appeared determined not to lose it.
IPS Inter Press Service Claudia Ciobanu 2010
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Witness the second international "degrowth" conference just concluded a few days ago.
AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online Kenneth P. Green 2010
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Last week one of the three main French trotskist group - Worker's Struggle - published an editorial denouncing "degrowth" as "reactionary".
Energy Bulletin - Damien Perrotin 2009
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Will a slight economic degrowth and a socio-ecological transition towards a steady state in the rich economies be accepted as a plausible and beneficial scenario?
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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The sustainable degrowth movement insists on the non-chrematistic value of local, reciprocal services.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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For example, the movement for “La Décroissance,” emanating from France to other parts of Europe, has followers and observers wondering what comes after an episode of “degrowth,” for in the long run degrowth is no more sustainable than growth.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ May There Be Dalyists~ Politics for a Steady State Economy 2009
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However, degrowth might lead to social problems that we must face for the degrowth proposal to be socially accepted.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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Economic degrowth could not be imagined by the competent European bureaucracy.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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What is new is a growing social movement for sustainable degrowth.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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He instead promotes degrowth — a deliberate shrinking of the economy — as a way to redistribute resources and shift to a slower economic system that prioritizes human welfare and planetary well-being.
Slow down, do less: A Q&A with the author who introduced 'degrowth' to a mass audience Akielly Hu 2024
gulyasrobi commented on the word degrowth
Degrowth is a new but increasingly popular concept. "Degrowth theorists" and "degrowth movements" dream of a "happy degrowth". I am surprised to see that no one on Wordnik has listed it, yet. http://blogs.euobserver.com/jacobs/2012/11/15/why-the-eu-must-dare-to-debate-degrowth/
December 12, 2012