A select list of English-language texts and links to sites on degrowth follows. Our notes contain many more references. You can search for specific topics and authors using the Index to this volume. All links were successfully accessed at 27 February 2020.
Avenel, T. ‘“A degrowth project”: Yesterday’s utopia has become today’s reality!’, EcoRev’ Revue Critique d’Ecologie Politique 41, 2013, English translation: www.projet-decroissance.net/?p=1230
Bookchin, Murray, Towards an Ecological Society, Montreal: Black Rose, 1980.
Carton, Hugo, Living Income for Free and Egalitarian Societies, Paris: Institut Momentum, 2013, English translation: www.projet-decroissance.net/?p=1640
Castoriadis, Cornelius, The Imaginary Institution of Society, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005.
Cowen, Deborah, The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
D’Alisa, Giacomo, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era, London: Routledge, 2015.
Demaria, Federico, François Schneider, Filka Sekulova and Joan Martinez-Alier, ‘What is degrowth? From an activist slogan to a social movement’, Environmental Values 22(2), 2013, pp. 191–215.
Ellul, Jacques, The Technological System, New York: Continuum, 1980.
Graeber, David, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. London: Melville House, 2011.
Graeber, David, ‘On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs: A work rant’, Strike! 3, August 2013: https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs
Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Gorz, André, Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-industrial Socialism, London: Pluto Press, 1994.
Gorz, André, Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-based Society, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999.
Heinberg, Richard, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Gabriola, BC: New Society Publishers, 2005.
Heinberg, Richard, The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, Gabriola, BC: New Society Publishers, 2011.
Hickel, Jason, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, London: Penguin (Windmill Books/Cornerstone Digital), 2018.
Hickel, Jason, ‘The sustainable development index: Measuring the ecological efficiency of human development in the Anthropocene’, Ecological Economics 167 (January 2020): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.05.011
Holloway, John, Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Hopkins, Rob, The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011
Hopkins, Rob and Lionel Astruc, The Transition Starts Here, Now and Together, White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
Hornborg, Alf, ‘How to turn an ocean liner: A proposal for voluntary degrowth by redesigning money for sustainability, justice, and resilience’, in Lisa L. Gezon and Susan Paulson (eds) Special Section on Degrowth, Culture and Power, Journal of Political Ecology 24, 2017, pp. 425–66.
Illich, Ivan, Deschooling Society, New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Illich, Ivan, Tools for Conviviality, New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Illich, Ivan, Energy and Equity, New York, Harper & Row, 1974.
Illich, Ivan, Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health, London: Calder & Boyars, 1975.
Jackson, Tim, Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow, Abingdon: Routledge, 2017.
Kallis, Giorgos, Degrowth, Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, 2018.
Kallis, Giorgos, Vasilis Kostakis, Steffen Lange, Barbara Muraca, Susan Paulson and Matthias Schmelzer, ‘Research on degrowth’, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 43 (October 2018): 291–316.
Kempf, Hervé, How the Rich are Destroying the Earth, Paris: Green Books, 2008.
Klein, Naomi, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador: New York, 2008.
Lafargue, Paul, The Right to Be Lazy: Essays by Paul Lafargue, Chico, CA: AK Press, 2011.
Latouche, Serge, Farewell to Growth, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
Liegey, V., S. Madelaine, C. Ondet and A. Veillot, ‘Neither protectionism nor neoliberalism but “open relocalization”: The basis for a new International’, originally published in French in Bastamag, 4 November 2015; English translation 2019 by Dan Golembeski, Un Projet de Décroissance website: www.projetdecroissance.net/?p=2125
Martínez-Alier, Joan, Unai Pascual, Franck-Dominique Vivien and Edwin Zaccai, ‘Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm’, Ecological Economics 69, 2010, pp. 1741–47, esp. pp. 1743–44.
Nelson, Anitra and François Schneider (eds), Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities, London: Routledge, 2018.
Polanyi, Karl, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, New York: Farrar and Reinhart, 1944.
Rist, Gilbert, The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith, London: Zed Books, 3rd edn 2008 [1996].
Schumacher, E.F., Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. London: Abacus, 1973.
LINKS
Primary degrowth sites in English include:
Degrowth – www.degrowth.info/en/
Research and Degrowth (R&D) – https://degrowth.org/
A Degrowth Project, English section – www.projet-decroissance.net/?cat=35
Cargonomia Centre for Research and Experimentation – http://cargonomia.hu/?lang=en