Degrowth and financial sustainability

How is economic growth entwined with the social, environmental and financial turmoil of the past few decades? How can we have a stable and prosperous economy that does not grow—let alone one that shrinks to a sustainable level relative to existing planetary boundaries?

The degrowth movement offers a radical critique and an alternative vision that draws from a range of unorthodox intellectual and philosophical traditions, including political ecology, ecological economics and post-development. It confronts us with our own biases concerning growth, limits, money, well-being and so on.

Degrowth and Financial Stability

In this last session we zoom out to the financial system as a whole and investigate whether growing debt and interest payments pressurize both our society and environment. Together, these sessions show how the persistent growth imperative – that has become the core of our existence – forces us to transgress natural and social limits. Moreover, they show how this imperative can be overcome.

WITH

• Jordy Willems (UvA/Iss * Future Planet Studies)
• Kees Vendrik (Hoofdeconoom Triodosbank)

MODERATED BY

Jan Reinder Rosing

IN COOPERATION WITH

UvA-IIS (Institute for interdisciplinary Studies), Minor Algemene Ontwikkeling, Minor Liberal Arts & Sciences, Minor Conscious Business & minor Circulaire Economie.