What if most of Britain’s economy was incapable of contributing anything more towards the country’s growth? What if Britain has already entered a postgrowth state?
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Economics
It’s business as usual that’s the utopian fantasy, while creating something very new and different is the pragmatic way forward.
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Four Degrees of Sharing
Taking Sharing to New Levels
How can sharing answer some of today’s biggest questions: about meeting our needs, reducing our impact, and living healthy and full lives?
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Child Poverty in Context
More Than One Way Forward
We have seen, within Canada, that economic growth does not lead directly to poverty alleviation. Why, then, is it a ‘priority theme’ within our international aid programs? There are feasible alternatives.
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Book Review: Not For Profit by Martha C. Nussbaum
Why Democracy Needs The Humanities
‘Education for democracy’, according th Martha Nussbaum, requires that we value the humanities and the arts in that they cultivate compassion, critical thinking, and imagination. Whether or not this is compatible with ‘education for economic growth’ is still up for debate.
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What if the economy listened? What if the economy stopped talking to itself – to its own swirl of messages and indicators and pundits and forecasts – and actually gave an earnest ear to the world around it?
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Postcards From Afghanistan
One Guy's Take on Growth and the War Machine
Growth doesn’t only perpetuate unsustainable consumption, but social injustices as well. Through the experiences of one civilian in Afghanistan, we are encouraged to consider the complexity of global politics, as well as our own complicitness.
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Present day Canadian society is literally oblivious. Everyone knows the state that the environment is in yet very few advocate changing it. It is this lack of drive and sense of impending doom that acts as an inhibitor for Canadians to let go of the “most recent past”. As more and more Canadians are seen [...]
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The pervasiveness of the growth model, particularly within media sources, can be unsettling. It is important that we seriously explore other economic possibilities. We can begin engaging with some of those alternatives now.
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