Anti-utilitarianism

Degrowth has been launched into the political arena by activists and intellectuals as a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability. This overview of degrowth offers to the English speaking-world a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of degrowth in a succinct, simple and accessible manner. In addition, it offers a set of keywords useful for intervening in current political debates and fro bringing about concrete degrowth-inspired proposals at different levels - local, national and global. The result is be the most comprehensive coverage of the topic of degrowth in English and serves as the definitive international reference.