Monthly Archives: September 2016

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (papers and panels) We invite you to join the 2nd Gathering of The Workers’ Economy, North America, Central America and Caribbean Region, taking place from the 3rd to the 5th of November, 2016 in Mexico City. This … Continue reading →

To overcome the systemic crisis of humanity and Mother Earth we must turn to indigenous ecological concepts, says Pablo Solón in his new book Richard Fidler In his balance sheet of Bolivia’s “process of change,” published recently on Richard’s site, … Continue reading →

John Feffer – Foreign Policy In Focus. Growth associated with innovation would not likely create a lot of jobs or spread its benefits widely, at least judging by what has happened over the last decade or so in Silicon Valley. … Continue reading →

People who would never dream of killing an albatross or a whale shark are prepared to let others do so on their behalf, so that they may eat whatever fish they fancy. People who could not bring themselves to gut … Continue reading →

The 5th International Degrowth Conference in Budapest and the Degrowth Summer School have ended. Time to look back at these events and see what we can take home from them. The Degrowth Germany editing team http://www.degrowth.de/de/?wysija-page=1&controller=email&action=view&email_id=74&wysijap=subscriptions&user_id=1104

American Association of Geographers meeting – call for papers *Organizers: Giorgos Kallis (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Karen Bakker (University of British Columbia), Federico Demaria (Autonomous University of Barcelona) A movement of activists and intellectuals in France, southern Europe, and beyond … Continue reading →

15. September 2016 By Steffen Lange The fifth international Degrowth Conference is over, the call to host the sixth has been opened. A lot could be said about the conference, yet I do not intend to give a comprehensive overview, … Continue reading →

The only function of “intellectual property” is to snatch scarcity from the jaws of abundance — to take goods that, thanks to the advance of human knowledge, should naturally be getting cheaper, and make them artificially expensive. This is nowhere … Continue reading →

In case you missed the fantastic 5th Int #Degrowth Conference, here you can find the keynote speeches and others https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCnn9BXo7JI884_V5gy2uT5A  

An interesting article on collective vs individual labour in a peer to peer cooperative vs a capitalist economy. There is widespread scholarly dissent regarding the transformation of work and the nature of labour in the information economy…. Wealth creation in … Continue reading →