I like the concept of leverage point from donila midos, the main author of the limits to growth report in the seventies. People will have to just get together, reflect on their needs, create new patterns. And i think countries learned from each other, and should. Look what they did in norway, where there just, you know, they have this kind of febate system to pase out heavy and polluting cars. In vienna, they they don't have for profit housing. It's all social housing. How does it work? An we learn from that? So i think now it's just, we will never find the perfect country somewhere, you know
On this episode, we meet with social scientist and researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University, Timothée Parrique.
What is degrowth, and how will it help define our future?
Parrique explains how the path to societal degrowth might unfold and the social and physical obstacles we may encounter on our way there.
About Timothée Parrique:
Timothée Parrique is a social scientist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).
He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.
Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a book adaptation in French of his PhD dissertation.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/32-timothee-parrique