Looking forward to joining this exciting workshop tomorrow!

Merz will den wirtschaftspolitischen #Epochenbruch. Das darf nicht unwidersprochen bleiben!

Damit der Widerspruch gehört wird, brauchen "Kritische Stimmen zu Wirtschaft und Krise" Reichweite.

go.bsky.app/EgVmLkA

Helft mit und verbreitet das Starter Pack.

Mit dabei sind... (🧵)

Ökologische Planung als kollektive Rückeroberung der Zukunft Dissens ist ein Gesprächs-Podcast über Politik, Kapitalismus und Gesellschaft

Europa und die USA haben sich mit dem Klimakollaps abgefunden oder driften in Richtung fossilen Autoritarismus. Es ist Zeit, dass Klimabewegte und Linke eine gemeinsame Erzählung entwickeln, erzählt @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social im Dissens Podcast @lukasondreka.bsky.social

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

Interesting: @brusselermel.bsky.social calling for "a new era of green economic planning" @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/dda5... Important addition: let's make sure planning is democratic and relinquishes reliance on green growth. h/t @danielagabor.bsky.social

D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1 It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…

Our new Alternative Reading List is out!

Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.

Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!

d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...

A great selection of resources for decolonising the various dimensions of economics (theories, methods, pedagogy. etc) by @divdececon.bsky.social

🥳🚨🤩 Job opportunity with me at Uni Lausanne working on the REAL project!

2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use

Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept!
tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz

Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ as green transition slows Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades

As if Big Oil was merely reacting to the green transition not actively preventing it. This is very bad news www.ft.com/content/8675...

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries - Nature Communications Using subnational Demographic and Health Survey data from 75 low and middle-income countries, the authors show that many households lack access to decent living standards as basic prerequisites for hu...

We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Morgen! Ich freue mich schon :-) #postwachstum #degrowth #planning

A map of Europe with many small multi-coloured circles layered on top. A legend titled Ecological Economics lists the colours and research hub, master programme, bachelor programme, and individual course. A logo of the European Society for Ecological Economics is in a corner, and a website URL is at the bottom: https://ecolecon.eu/ecological-economics-map/

🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe?

🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!

🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...

🙏 Feedback welcome

Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...

New article with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social

EU industrial policy aims for resilience, autonomy & sustainability — but internal contradictions make these goals structurally unrealisable

We outline a post-growth alternative: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Heute Start der Aktionswoche "Gemeinsam aus der Einsamkeit" in Deutschland. Neben der Rolle von Social Media vielleicht auch die des Kapitalismus diskutieren, wenn das Fehlen sozialer Verbundenheit und gesellschaftlichen Miteinanders beklagt wird?! www.bundestag.de/resource/blo...

Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction <p>Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.<br /><br />...

Check out the new, indispensable book on Decolonising Economics by @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and @ingridhk.bsky.social

www.wiley.com/en-be/Decolo...

Morgen, 7. Mai, Ringvorlesung an der Uni Siegen: “Von Tech-Oligarchie bis antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik”.

10:00–11:15 Uhr – online via Webex.

ℹ️ www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/wiwi/plurale...

Mit @ehofferberth.bsky.social, @lobbycontrol.bsky.social, @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social, @social.verdi.de...

For guidance doi.org/10.1016/S254... by Jefim Vogel @jasonhickel.bsky.social + doi.org/10.1016/S254... by Giorgos Kallis @jasonhickel.bsky.social Dan O'Neill, @proftimjackson.bsky.social Peter Victor @kateraworth.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @dianaurge.bsky.social

Germany’s Friedrich Merz plans ‘double bazooka’ for defence and infrastructure Economists’ proposal for up to €800bn of funding under review as part of coalition talks

In the German debate over special funding for defence and infrastructure, can we please make sure these are in line with fair shares in resource use, emission targets etc.

www.ft.com/content/1996...

US research in danger: solidarity with our colleagues The Swiss and international scientific community is observing with consternation and horror the unprecedented and systematic attacks on research in the United States by the new Trump administration. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of scientists have been fired, essential funding brutally cut, and whole swathes of research brought to a standstill by the new regime, which seeks to inflict as much suffering as possible, by accompanying this destruction with vindictive rhetoric and deliberate cruelty. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds biomedical research, abruptly suspended the payment of grants, leaving many colleagues without pay and leading to the dismissal of over 1,000 employees. The National Science Foundation (NSF), for its part, has seen its budgets slashed by over 60%, and vital scientific projects from the study of ecosystems to the prevention of pandemics are now threatened or suspended altogether. Major demographic, epidemiological and climate change databases, used by thousands of researchers for their scientific work, have been taken offline and are now inaccessible.

In Switzerland, although these unprecedented events may seem remote, they should not be perceived as an abstract threat. The current global climate bears witness to an upsurge in similar attacks, fuelled by misinformation and a growing desire for political control over scientific production. In the face of this, silence or indifference are tantamount to condoning a worrisome drift towards widespread authoritarian obscurantism. The Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (CLADS) expresses its full and unconditional solidarity with all researchers in the United States affected by this campaign of scientific annihilation and mass layoffs. CLADS fully associates itself with Stand Up for Science Day, organized on March 7 in the United States and around the world to defend academic freedom, and calls for a broad mobilization in support of our American colleagues and free research. We call on all Swiss academic and scientific institutions, as well as our European and international colleagues, to take a clear stand against this unprecedented offensive. It is imperative that our voices, united and firm, recall that without academic freedom, there can be no democracy.

Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy.
clads.ch/en/us-resear...

Learn from Germany.

When the left panders to anti-migrant sentiment, like the BSW, it just strengthens the far right.

When the left fights solid, populist, grassroots campaigns, like Die Linke, it wins.

Once upon a time, the social democrats were the workers’ party in Germany.

In the election today the extreme right AfD gained 3x more support from workers than the SPD.

In Germany, a far right party has the best result since WWII.

75% of AfD voters say they are very worried that prices are rising so much that they can’t pay their bills.

Inflation once more fueled the extreme right.

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data

How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Here is a list of studies, surveys and polls with some striking results. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/how-popula...

Warum denken wir beim Wort "Wirtschaftswunder" immer nur an Wirtschaftswachstum? Das grössere Wunder wäre eine sozial gerechte, demokratische und ökologisch nachhaltige Wirtschaft, oder?

Initiative 19. Februar -

Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov

#SayTheirNames #Hanau

Unterstützt die Demos
19feb-hanau.org

Klimastreik - Mit Fridays for Future auf die Straßen Weil für uns klar ist: an konsequentem und sozial gerechtem Klimaschutz darf keine Partei vorbeikommen.

Solidarität mit allen, die heute zum #Klimastreik auf die Strasse gehen!

Solidarity with all out in the streets today for #climatestrike !

#FFF #fridaysforfuture
fridaysforfuture.de/klimastreik/
www.klima-streik.org

...Chapter 13, in which Elena Hoffeberth, @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social and @cedricdurand.bsky.social argue that the idea of degrowth necessitates planning, but that the synergy between both hasn't been explored yet. For that they suggest a model that brings both together.
Followed by...16/21