1. Can prosperity be disentangled from growth? / Dominique Meda -- 2. A high-stakes shift : turning the tide from GDP to new prosperity indicators / Isabelle Cassiers and Geraldine Thiry -- 3. Towards a transcultural definition of prosperity : insights from the capability approach / Stephane...

The economy in a post-growth era : what project and what philosophy? / Isabelle Cassiers and Kevin Maréchal -- Work and employment in a post-growth era / Dominique Méda -- The new paths of decommodification / Bernard Perret -- Social economy and polycentric governance of transitions / Thomas...

Toward the end of his academic career Professor L.H. Dupriez, whose memory this volume honors, became increasingly concerned about the way in which the discipline of economics was developing. He rejected a definition of the subject too constrained by methodological strictures and encouraged his...

In the middle of the twentieth century, Belgium seems to have undergone a fairly rapid transformation from a relatively low-wage economy to a high-wage economy. How could Belgian business handle this change in its cost structure? Was it through exceptional technical progress? The best-known...

Professor L.H. Dupriez (1901-1986), founder of the Economic and Social Research Institute (IRES) and of the Department of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain, was a leading figure in both the theory and the application of economics in Belgium during the 20th century. His personal...