Notes from the Editors, July-August 2023
July 1, 2023
buy this issue In his final years, Frederick Engels was deeply concerned about the seeming inevitability of a world war of mass extermination. In his 1887 introduction to a pamphlet… READ MORE
Articles
Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human DevelopmentÑAn Introduction
July 1, 2023
All important concepts are dialectically vague at the margins. —Herman E. Daly1 The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary… READ MORE
Degrowth and Socialism: Notes on Some Critical Junctures
July 1, 2023
Güney Işıkara is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University, Liberal Studies. Özgür Narin is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ordu University in Ordu, Türkiye. The dialogue, or… READ MORE
On Technology and Degrowth
July 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the… READ MORE
Degrowing ChinaÑBy Collapse, Redistribution, or Planning?
July 1, 2023
Minqi Li is a professor of economics at the University of Utah. Li can be reached at [email protected]. In recent years, degrowth theory has gained popularity among a growing number… READ MORE
Where Danger LiesÉ: The Communal Alternative in Venezuela
July 1, 2023
Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. His upcoming… READ MORE
Planning Degrowth: The Necessity, History, and Challenges
July 1, 2023
Kent Klitgaard is professor emeritus of economics and sustainability at Wells College in Aurora, New York. Unplanned degrowth can be a disaster for those living in a capitalist system, especially… READ MORE
Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism
July 1, 2023
Jason Hickel is professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the… READ MORE
Planning an Ecologically Sustainable and Democratic Economy: Challenges and Tasks
July 1, 2023
Martin Hart-Landsberg is professor emeritus of economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. We desperately need an ecosocialist-inspired transformation of the U.S. economy, one that will allow us to… READ MORE
Planning and the Ecosocialist Mode of Cooperation
July 1, 2023
Nicolas Graham is currently a postdoctoral fellow at York University in the Department of Sociology at Glendon College. Economic planning, which is premised on control and public ownership of enterprises… READ MORE