EEI SEMINAR: “The Political Economy of Degrowth” by Timothée Parrique

EEI SEMINAR: “The Political Economy of Degrowth”



Speaker: Timothée Parrique, ICTA-UAB researcher

 

Day: Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Time: 12.30h

Room: Z/023

Abstract

What would the economy of a degrowth society look like? And what transformations are required to bring it into existence? In this seminar, I will present a theory of degrowth as deseconomisation where 7 normative principles (care, equity, autonomy, sufficiency, conviviality, proportion, and synchronisation) are used to imagine alternative modes of provision to the current extractivist, productivist, commodifying, consumerist, and obsoletist practices and imaginaries.  

Bio

Tim holds a bachelor degree in economics from the University of Versailles (France) and a masters degree in sustainability science with a focus on ecological economics from Uppsala University (Sweden). After graduating, he spent three years teaching an introduction course to political economy at the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at Uppsala University. Tim’s doctoral research explores multi-policy degrowth transition scenarios for the case of France from a social ecological macroeconomics perspective, and using the tools of prospective and system dynamics. The thesis considers a range of different public policies (universal basic income and services; resource, wealth, and income caps; work time reduction and job guarantee; community currencies and sovereign money) as to find how these can contribute to transformations toward degrowth. When he’s not reading about political economy, Tim enjoys extreme sports, playing chess, and memorising random numbers.