Category Archives: theory

Jason Hickel introduces Degrowth – book review

Posted on 9 March, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

Also republished by MR online, 18.03.2021 Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World. By Jason Hickel, London: Penguin-Random House, 2020. ISBN 978-1-786-09121-5 Mark H Burton, Steady State Manchester. Degrowth has arrived. It makes appearances in mainstream newspapers, radio … Continue reading →

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There must be some way out of here: policies, politics and possibilities in the pancrisis.

Posted on 9 November, 2020 by The Steady State Manchester team

There must be some way out of here: policies, politics and possibilities in the pancrisis. by Mark H Burton This article was commissioned by the online journal 15/15\15 Revista para una nueva civilización.  The article appears there in Spanish translation … Continue reading →

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Taking the Imperative out of Growth

Posted on 30 June, 2020 by The Steady State Manchester team

by Mark H Burton This article presents the personal viewpoint of the author rather than the considered position of the SSM collective as a whole. This article as a pdf.        Our much longer, fully referenced version (pdf). The report, The … Continue reading →

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The circular economy: is it the solution to resource depletion and pollution?

Posted on 5 October, 2016 by The Steady State Manchester team

The main promoter of the circular economy (CE) defines it like this: A circular economy is one that is restorative and regenerative by design, and which aims to keep products, components and materials at their highest utility and value at … Continue reading →

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Responses to the Ecomodernist Manifesto

Posted on 9 May, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

Originally posted on Uncommontater:
Responses to the Ecomodernist Manifesto I recently came upon An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and was staggered by the scale of its unwarranted assumptions and errors. It argues that the malign human impacts on the earth can be…

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The Viable Economy serialised – About the Environment

Posted on 13 February, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

We continue the serialisation of our intervention, The Viable Economy, this time with Chapter 10, “About Environment”.  You can download the whole pamphlet as a pdf file, here. If you like it, why not make a donation towards our work. … Continue reading →

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Viable Economy reading group

Posted on 17 December, 2014 by The Steady State Manchester team

We are going to run a Viable Economy reading group.  This will involve reading part of The Viable Economy plus another related piece each week, and then discussing the issues arising.  Our idea is to help participants to deepen their … Continue reading →

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Austerity is a scam but green growth isn’t the answer either.

Posted on 4 December, 2014 by The Steady State Manchester team

Yesterday, 3rd December, 2014, The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, made his autumn statement in which he set out the government’s plans on the economy. He confirmed that a Tory government will continue to cut public spending in … Continue reading →

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