Ecological Economics

This workshop offers an introduction to Degrowth and Ecological Economics. It starts by surveying the socio-ecological crisis and its pseudo-solutions, and then moves to Ecological Macroeconomics as a relatively recent field of scholarship within Ecological Economics.

Zunächst motiviert Steffen Lange für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation hin zu einer Postwachstumsökonomie und erläutert, was darunter verstanden werden kann. Anschließend stellt er die Fragen, was die makroökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen für solch eine Ökonomie sein müssten. Dafür präsentiert Steffen Lange Rahmenbedingungen und Schlussfolgerungen, die sich aus verschiedenen ökonomischen Theorieschulen ableiten lassen. Hierbie …

Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Feminist Economics make a conjoint statement: The way we see the economic system has nothing to do with human beings nor those who have been surviving outside the market.

While many are unsatisfied with capitalism and critique it in highly sophisticated ways, there are few concrete proposals for a socialist mode of production that could replace the capitalist one. Daniel E. Saros has developed such a proposal in his book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism" which we discuss at length over the course of two episodes.