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Introduction
Less than two months ago, in our shell-shocked world of post-trust politics, you no longer hear the clarion cry for economic growth called forth in quite such strident terms. There are also those economists who hold, mostly for reasons connected with climate change, that we should engage reverse gear and go for de-growth. We'll hear from them too. Some will even argue that actually the entire construct of economics has to be rethought under this de-growth banner. In fact, some would even argue that economics itself has to be thrown away.