Degrowth: what's behind this economic theory and why it matters today
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Degrowth broadly means shrinking rather than growing economies, so we use less of the world’s energy and resources and put wellbeing ahead of profit. Degrowth as a term was coined in 1972 degrowth started to take off in the early 2000s movement, degrowth started to take off in the early 2000s One of
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- Degrowth broadly means shrinking rather than growing economies, so we use less of the world’s energy and resources and put wellbeing ahead of profit.
- Degrowth as a term was coined in 1972
- degrowth started to take off in the early 2000s
- movement, degrowth started to take off in the early 2000s
- One of the things degrowthers would like to see is the end of gross domestic product (GDP) being used as a measure of economic progress
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