04. Degrowth: Growing new models of business and wellbeing - Timothée Parrique, Author and Researcher at Lund University
Description
In this episode, we welcome Timothée Parrique, a pioneering proactivist, passionate about degrowth. Timothée is a researcher, economist, and scientist who focuses on questions about de-growth, post-growth, and post-capitalism.
We explore:
- what degrowth is
- how it can be defined
- why it needs to exist
- what it means in practice
- what practical policies we can adopt
- and examples where they are working.
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Who is Timothée Parrique
Timothée Parrique is an economist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).
He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.
Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a wide-audience book adaptation of his PhD dissertation.
Tim frequently writes about green growth and decoupling; he is the lead author of “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).
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