In this episode Gerry and Carmel talk to Matthias Schmelzer, an economic historian, social theorist and climate activist. Reflecting on the concept of growth and its history, Matthias unpacks the deliberate decisions of the past which have lead us to our economic system today and explores the concept of degrowth as an alternative path.

Matthias is a post-doctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and is active in numerous social-ecological networks and movements. He is the author of two books, “The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm” and “The Future is Degrowth: A world beyond Capitalism."

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