Climate & Environment
Post-Growth
An economic perspective arguing that wealthy societies should plan for prosperity without depending on perpetual GDP growth.
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Post-growth is a body of economic thought and policy exploring how societies — particularly high-income ones — can secure wellbeing, equity and ecological stability without relying on continuous aggregate economic growth. It spans degrowth (planned downscaling of throughput in rich economies), agrowth (indifference to GDP as an objective) and steady-state economics, united by the view that growth is neither ecologically sustainable nor a reliable proxy for progress.
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