Economics for Rebels

This live recording of the 3rd Season’s final episode is a plenary roundtable discussion at the 10th International Degrowth and 15th European Society for Ecological

One of the biggest structural drivers of ecological degradation is the financial sector, which ultimately plays a key role in allocating society’s resources towards economic activities that generate carbon emissions or degrade

In our current attention economy, it is of vital importance how alternative economic solutions are being presented in the media by the most credible players. Any ecological economist would tell that mainstream media covers almost exclusively mainstream economic thinking significantly contributing to upholding a paradigm that needs to be transformed for people and planet. Today’s guest, Nick Romeo, a journalist with a predisposition to

Today we’re very excited to have the Doughnut Economics

We welcome Doughnut economics legend Kate Raworth onto the show. Kate talks us through the successes and challenges facing the adoption of doughnut economics

It is often argued that it was market-based capitalism that made agriculture so efficient that it enabled the eradication of hunger globally. This claim is shadowed by the incredible environmental degradation that was

Ecological economists need to pull all sorts of leverage

Today’s guest, Robert Costanza is hardly unknown to anyone who is vaguely familiar with ecological economics. While we could fill entire seasons discussing the topics he has covered in his works, in this episode we are discussing his latest book: Addicted to Growth: Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future where he applies the analogy of addiction to our contemporary problems. Humanity is addicted to economic growth and like true addicts, even if we accept that it is ruining us by fuelling climate change, mass extinction and a wide range of

Some key mainstream critiques of postgrowth economics revolve around labour, and what the labour market would look like in a postgrowth economy, with the common perception being that economic contraction tends to be associated with unemployment, and therefore that a postgrowth economy is socially unsustainable. But, if we are to transition to a postgrowth

Over the last decades, burning wood for energy has expanded in the EU, as have proposals for implementing Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). The origins of this questionable boom can be found in accounting loopholes, which allow burning woody biomass to be classed as carbon neutral