Matthias Schmelzer
@MGSchmelzer
Prof Uni Flensburg • economic history and social-ecological transformation • author of HEGEMONY OF GROWTH and THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH • find me on bluesky
The critique of economic growth is as old as growth itself. And it’s not just about the more recent critique of GDP or about growth as a policy goal, but goes much deeper. How was growth criticized and by whom? Check out my new article @GlobalizationsJ 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It’s almost as though booming stock markets and growing GDP don’t inevitably lead to rising living standards 🤔
Roughly *67%* of voters rated the economy as "not so good/poor," per Washington Post exit polls A shockingly poor number amid a hot labor market, booming stocks, much lower inflation, growing GDP But widespread voter dissatisfaction w/ the economy been clear for years
Another Nakba: "Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home," the Israel Defense Forces said, "in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment" of its plan. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…
Jetzt ist es offiziell: Ich bin zum Professor für sozial-ökologische Transformationsforschung an der Europa-Universität Flensburg ernannt. Freue mich sehr auf die Arbeit mit Studierenden, Kolleg*innen und die Leitung des Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research
In Israel sorgt gerade ein Medienskandal für Aufsehen, der in Deutschland erstaunlich wenig Beachtung findet. Dabei ist die grösste deutsche Zeitung, die Bild, direkt beteiligt. Habe vor inzwischen 6 Wochen bereits hier darüber geschrieben. Basics im 🧵/1 woz.ch/2438/israel-pa…
“Capitalist realism is dispelled. Today it is easier to imagine the end of capitalism by 2048 than to imagine the end of the world.” Thank you, @koheisaito0131, for endorsing our new book Future for All, out now with @MayflyBooks. Open Access ⬇️ mayflybooks.org/future-for-all…
Here's our Call for Papers on Global Degrowth: (Inter)dependencies, power, and justice - for the journal New Global Studies Please share with interested persons. Edited with Jenny Ufer, Felix Windegger and @Brototi eurac.edu/en/institutes-…
Here is our commentary on how the 2024 Economics Nobel integrates colonialism into economics, while leaving a colonial worldview intact (with @SurbhiKesar & @devikadutt). To explain how & why they do this, we go back to the colonial origins of economics. epw.in/journal/2024/4…
The beauty of economics is that because nobody reads anything that was written more than 5 years ago, theories, hypotheses, doctrines can be permanently reinvented, and people can get famous for a couple of years until what they wrote is in turn forgotten.
NEW INVESTIGATION: Today, FA + @counterinv publish new research on the colonial-era concentration camp in Swakopmund, Namibia, where thousands of Ovaherero and Nama were worked to death under German occupation during the genocide of 1904-1908. forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…
The economists who managed to incorporate colonialism into mainstream economic theory *without* challenging the underlying (Eurocentric) understanding of capitalism... Ofc will be rewarded by the Economics discipline.
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”…
this book got far too little attention when it got out. it's a most beautiful history of saxonian mining, but also much more – a study of how mining undermined the rigid order of the feudal world and how it created, semantically and practically, a new space and economic order
Gute Rezension zu unserem Buch "Der sozial-ökologische Klassenkonflikt", Open Access bei @Campusverlag. @IPGJournal ipg-journal.de/aus-meinem-bue…
La ideología del crecimiento y sus orígenes Nuestro fetiche por el crecimiento surge a raíz de transformaciones materiales y culturales, y lo mismo ocurrirá con el decrecimiento Mi articulo ahora en español elsaltodiario.com/guerrilla-tran…
"As pressures increase and the risk of Earth's climate system switching to a catastrophic state rises, more and more scientists have begun to research the possibility of societal collapse." 😬 Read that twice!
Alarm Phone turns 10! For 3,650 days & nights, we've been on shift and were alerted to over 8,000 boats in distress. Today, we publish this book to give an account of how our project started & developed. No border lasts forever. Solidarity will win! 1/3 alarmphone.org/en/campaigns/t…
🚨My book is out!🚨 "Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice" This book critically examines climate coloniality globally & presents pathways to decolonize climate justice. Check it out! #ClimateColoniality Details➡️ farhanasultana.com/confronting-cl…
Wildfires are burning through the carbon budget that humans have allocated themselves to limit global heating, a study shows. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
