The new politics of growth and stagnation (part 1)
The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth
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The Politics of Growth Models
Growth is super important for a capitalistic economy. Without growth, it becomes much more difficult to legitimize and stabilize a system that inherently tends to generate inequality. We see with right-wing populism as one example of things going wrong when consent isn't there. And if de-growth becomes an imperative from a sustainability point of view, then the de-growth model is going to have to generate consent by some other set of means which probably involve redistribution - or certain types of capitalism at least.
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