We analyze the optimal life-cycle education decision of a single atomistic individual and show that the standard result of part-time education and part-time work throughout the life-cycle holds only under very special and unrealistic assumptions. Once these assumptions are relaxed, different...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Malthusians and the Cornucopians -- 3. What to Do About the Detritovores? -- 4. Green Growth -- 5. The Degrowth Movement: A Radical Political Project -- 6. Living in a Degrowth World -- 7. Collapse -- 8. Conclusion.