“Degrowth is completely different. It is about shifting to a different kind of economy altogether – an economy that doesn't need growth in the first place. An economy that's organised around human flourishing and ecological stability, rather than around the constant accumulation of capital.”

—  Jason Hickel

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Source: Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World, p. 207

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Feb. 24, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Degrowth is completely different. It is about shifting to a different kind of economy altogether – an economy that does…" by Jason Hickel?
Jason Hickel photo
Jason Hickel 4
author 1982

Related quotes

Douglass C. North photo

“The factors we have listed (innovation, economies of scale, education, capital accumulation, etc.) are not causes of growth; they are growth.”

Douglass C. North (1920–2015) American Economist

Source: The rise of the western world, 1973, p. 2

Niall Ferguson photo

“One growing threat to the stability of the U. S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order, paradoxically emerges from its success in establishing capitalism around the world.”

Herbert Schiller (1919–2000) American media critic

Source: Living In The Number One Country (2000), Chapter Seven, Number One In The Twenty-First Century, p. 183-184

Hillary Clinton photo

“There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world. And I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Alfred P. Sloan photo

“Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.”

Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966) American businessman

Source: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 15 (2015 edition)

“The trading characteristics of a security become more important than its underlying economics. The virtual economics began to drive the physical economy rather than the other way around.”

Aaron C. Brown (1956) American financial analyst

Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 3, Finance Basics, p. 59

Robert Costanza photo

“Ecological Economics studies the ecology of humans and the economy of nature, the web of interconnections uniting the economic subsystem to the global ecosystem of which it is a part.”

Robert Costanza (1950) American economist

Robert Costanza, Ecological economics: the science and management of sustainability. Columbia University Press, 1992.

Audre Lorde photo
Robert J. Shiller photo

Related topics