Articles 2020

There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing. Despite recent advances in post-growth research, important questions remain, such as the politics of transition, and transformations in the relationship between the Global Nort

Indépendamment de ce que l’on pense de la durabilité ou de l’opportunité de la croissance économique, étant donné que le monde se trouve dans une situation de ralentissement de la croissance couplée à une dégradation écologique croissante, les recherches émergentes sur l’après-croissance décrites ici posent des questions importantes et offrent des réponses provisoires qui peuvent aider à préparer les sociétés à un avenir instable.