We have uploaded Elena Hofferberth’s talk that was hosted by INDEP on the 26th of August on the INDEP YouTube channel. In the talk Elena talks about why the Degrowth discorse needs Democratic Economic Planning and offers some suggestions on how achieving Degrowth through planning might be possible.
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Here is the announcement text for Elena’s talk once more: Contemporary social-ecological crises are driven by the perpetual drive for growth and profit in our economic system. Degrowth/Post-Growth has emerged as a new paradigm for the transformation of our economies, promoting a planned reduction of energy and resource use in the Global North to limit environmental pressures and global inequalities and improving well-being. Despite the explicit or implicit acknowledgement of the need for planning in a Degrowth/Postgrowth transition, research at the Degrowth-Planning nexus has so far been limited. In this talk, Elena Hofferberth explores reasons for why research on degrowth and planning has so far been underexplored. She then outlines why the exploration of the Degrowth-Planning provides a fruitful way forward in thinking about the social-ecological transformation of the economy and highlights key challenges for developing adequate approaches of economic democracy within planetary boundaries. Finally, we collectively explore real-world entry points to democratic planning beyond growth.