Politics / Growth
Articles about Growth, ordered by date. 
What if…
We took degrowth seriously? Ditching planet-popping expansion for justice is a vision worth getting behind, says Dinyar Godrej.
We can’t grow our way out of poverty
For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on the line.
Articles in this category displayed as a table:
| Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
|---|---|---|
| What if… | Abolition | March, 2022 |
| We can’t grow our way out of poverty | How we make poverty | March, 2020 |
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