Over the last two decades the degrowth movement has made an impressive come-back. By challenging the hegemonic formulations of neoliberal economic policy – which is still, somehow, being taught in universities and earning people Nobel prizes – degrowth has managed to attack the established economic thinking by demanding greater scholarly rigor and questioning the subsumption of everything into the economy. Degrowth rattles the logics of scarcity and substitutability that is foundational to economic thought.
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