Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel

None of this is to say that growth is bad, in and of itself. That’s not my argument. It’s not growth that’s the problem, it’s growthism: the pursuit of growth for its own sake, or for the sake of capital accumulation, rather than to meet concrete human needs and social objectives.

Do high-income economies really need to keep growing, forever? Toward what end?