Malthus – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:46:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png Malthus – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Is degrowth an alternative to capitalism? https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/degrowth-alternative-capitalism/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:28:55 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/degrowth-alternative-capitalism/ by Güney Işıkara

The newest book by Giorgos Kallis, one of the most prolific degrowth advocates is entitled Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care. It is a short and accessible read which contains some important and unconventional arguments. In what follows, I will first briefly summarize the core arguments of the book, which promises to provoke important discussions on the matter of limits and subjects. Then I will reflect on the fuzziness of the primarily cultural conceptualization of capitalism, and argue that neither self-limitation nor degrowth qualifies as a mode of production, such that they could constitute an alternative […]]]> by Güney Işıkara

The newest book by Giorgos Kallis, one of the most prolific degrowth advocates is entitled Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care. It is a short and accessible read which contains some important and unconventional arguments. In what follows, I will first briefly summarize the core arguments of the book, which promises to provoke important discussions on the matter of limits and subjects. Then I will reflect on the fuzziness of the primarily cultural conceptualization of capitalism, and argue that neither self-limitation nor degrowth qualifies as a mode of production, such that they could constitute an alternative to capitalism.

]]> Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/limits-why-malthus-was-wrong-and-why-environmentalists-should-care/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:45:10 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/limits-why-malthus-was-wrong-and-why-environmentalists-should-care/ by Editors

Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care Posted Oct 31, 2019 by Eds.  Environment , Literature  Global  Newswire , Review Originally published: Resolute Reader by Giorgos Kallis (October 22, 2019) This short, readable and stimulating book begins with the author overturning perceived knowledge about the 18th century economist Robert Malthus. Malthus is best know for his extended work An Essay on the Principle of Population, an influential book that has rarely been read by those who claim to extend his ideas. Giorgos Kallis argues that it is important to understand what Malthus was really arguing for, because it is a key statement of a central tenet of modern economics, the idea […]]]> by Editors

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Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

Posted Oct 31, 2019 by Eds.

 Environment , Literature  Global  Newswire , Review

Originally published: Resolute Reader by Giorgos Kallis (October 22, 2019)

This short, readable and stimulating book begins with the author overturning perceived knowledge about the 18th century economist Robert Malthus. Malthus is best know for his extended work An Essay on the Principle of Population, an influential book that has rarely been read by those who claim to extend his ideas. Giorgos Kallis argues that it is important to understand what Malthus was really arguing for, because it is a key statement of a central tenet of modern economics, the idea of limits. In his introduction Kallis says that he aims to “reclaim, refine and defend the notion of limits” and proceeds to do just this with a critical examination of the way that limits have been understood by economists and environmentalists since Malthus’ time

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