Book review: The Case for Degrowth

Polity Books has created a series of short books called ‘the case for‘, each one presenting the arguments for a particular policy. I reviewed The Case for Universal Basic Services last year. Each one is a brief introduction to a political idea, written by relevant experts.

In this one you get four authors for your money, with Giorgos Kallis, Giacomo d’Alisa and Federico Demaria in Spain and Susan Paulson in the US. The Spain connection is interesting, because the three authors here are b...