Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly. Given uncertainty about future growth rates and increasing evidence that economic growth is a driver of social and environmental crises, these growth dependencies pose serious societal challenges. In recent...

The existence of an environmental limit in the Solow-Swan economy changes the nature of economic growth, but does not preclude it. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If...

The simultaneous rise of populism and the decay of liberal democracy in East-Central Europe is in striking contrast to the optimism prevalent in previous decades about the region's future. Without exception, each country in East-Central Europe embraced a dependent export-led growth model in the...

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

Agesichts des Klimawandels und anderer ökologischer Probleme finden die Positionender Degrowth- und Postwachstumsansätze vermehrt Anhänger:innen. Allerdings habendiese wachstumskritischen Ansätze viele Probleme. Die Wachstumskritik ist zwar in vielenBereichen berechtigt, die Schrumpfung oder...