Capital, Economic Growth, and Socio-Ecological Crisis: A Critique of De-Growth

References

• Altvater, E. 2001. “The Growth Obsession.” In Socialist Register 2002: A World of Contradictions, edited by L. Panitch and C. Leys, 73–92. London: Merlin Press.
   Google Scholar
• Alvarez Lozano, L. 2012. “Withdrawal from Growth: The Environmental Challenge for Twenty-first-century Socialism.” International Critical Thought 2 (1): 71–82. doi: 10.1080/21598282.2012.660058
   Google Scholar
• Andreasson, S. 2005. “Accumulation and Growth to What End? Reassessing the Modern Faith in Progress in the ‘Age of Development’.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 (4): 57–76. doi: 10.1080/10455750500376016
   Google Scholar
• Apostolopoulou, E., and W. M. Adams. 2015. “Neoliberal Capitalism and Conservation in the Post-Crisis Era: The Dialectics of ‘Green’ and ‘Un-green’ Grabbing in Greece and the UK.” Antipode 47 (1): 15–35. doi: 10.1111/anti.12102
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Asara, V., I. Otero, F. Demaria, and E. Corbera. 2015. “Socially Sustainable Degrowth as a Social-Ecological Transformation: Repoliticizing Sustainability.” Sustainability Science 10 (3): 375–384. doi: 10.1007/s11625-015-0321-9
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ayres, R. 1996. “Limits to the Growth Paradigm.” Ecological Economics 19 (2): 117–134. doi: 10.1016/0921-8009(96)00064-X
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bank of Greece. 2012. Governor’s Report for 2011. [In Greek]. Athens: Bank of Greece.
   Google Scholar
• Barkin, D. 2016. “Violence, Inequality and Development.” Journal of Australian Political Economy 78: 115–131.
   Google Scholar
• Barry, J. 2015. “Green Political Economy: Beyond Orthodox Undifferentiated Economic Growth as a Permanent Feature of the Economy.” In Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory, edited by T. Gabrielson, C. Hall, J. Meyer and D. Schlosberg, 304–317. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Benton, T. 1989. “Marxism and Natural Limits: An Ecological Critique and Reconstruction.” New Left Review 178: 51–86.
   Google Scholar
• Bookchin, M. 1986. Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
   Google Scholar
• Botetzagias, I. 2011. “Green Politics in Greece at the Time of Fiscal Crisis.” In Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries, edited by L. Leonard and I. Botetzagias, 161–180. Bringly: Emerald Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Burkett, P. 1998a. “A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism: Society, Nature, and Population.” Historical Materialism 2: 118–142. doi: 10.1163/156920698100414211
   Google Scholar
• Burkett, P. 1998b. “Labour, Eco-regulation, and Value: A Response to Benton’s Ecological Critique of Marx.” Historical Materialism 3: 119–144. doi: 10.1163/156920698100414329
   Google Scholar
• Burkett, P. 1999. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective. London: Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Carchedi, G. 2011. Behind the Crisis: Marx’s Dialectics of Value and Knowledge. Leiden: Brill.
   Google Scholar
• Castree, N. 2000. “Marxism and the Production of Nature.” Capital & Class 24 (3): 5–36. doi: 10.1177/030981680007200102
   Google Scholar
• Chattopadhyay, P. 2016. Marx’s Associated Mode of Production: A Critique of Marxism. New York: Palgrave.
   Google Scholar
• Correia, D. 2012. “Degrowth, American Style: No Impact Man and Bourgeois Primitivism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (1): 105–118. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2011.648847
   Google Scholar
• Dale, G. 2012. “The Growth Paradigm: A Critique.” International Socialism, no. 134. Accessed June 11, 2017. http://isj.org.uk/the-growth-paradigm-a-critique/.
   Google Scholar
• Dale, G., M. V. Mathai, and J. P. de Oliveira, eds. 2016. Green Growth: Ideology, Political Economy and Policy Alternatives. London: Zed Books.
   Google Scholar
• Daly, H. 1996. Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development. Boston: Beacon.
   Google Scholar
• Daly, H. 2013. From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
   Google Scholar
• European Environment Agency. 2015. “Greece: The State of the Environment Report: 2015.” Accessed June 11, 2017. www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2015/countries/greece.
   Google Scholar
• Federici, S. 2001. “The Debt Crisis, Africa and the New Enclosures.” The Commoner, no. 2. Accessed June 11, 2017. http://www.commoner.org.uk/02federici.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Féliz, M. 2012. “Neo-developmentalism: Beyond Neoliberalism? Capitalist Crisis and Argentina’s Development since the 1990s.” Historical Materialism 20 (2): 105–123. doi: 10.1163/1569206X-12341246
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ferguson, P. 2016. “Liberalism and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Exploration.” Environmental Values 25 (5): 593–619. doi: 10.3197/096327116X14703858759170
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 1999. “Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology.” American Journal of Sociology 105 (2): 366–405. doi: 10.1086/210315
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 2000. Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature. New York: Monthly Review Press.
   Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 2002. “II. Capitalism and Ecology: The Nature of the Contradiction.” Monthly Review 54 (4): 8–18. doi: 10.14452/MR-054-04-2002-08_2
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 2011. “Capitalism and Degrowth: An Impossibility Theorem.” Monthly Review 62 (8): 26–33. doi: 10.14452/MR-062-08-2011-01_2
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 2013. “Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature.” Monthly Review 65 (7): 1–19. doi: 10.14452/MR-065-07-2013-11_1
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B. 2016. “Marxism in the Anthropocene: Dialectical Rifts on the Left.” International Critical Thought 6 (3): 393–421. doi: 10.1080/21598282.2016.1197787
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, J. B., B. Clark, and R. York. 2010. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. New York: Monthly Review Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fotopoulos, T. 1997. Towards An Inclusive Democracy. London: Cassell.
   Google Scholar
• Fotopoulos, T. 2010. “De-growth, the Simpler Way and Inclusive Democracy.” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy 6 (4), Accessed June 11, 2017. http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol6/vol6_no4_takis_degrowth_simpler_way_id.htm.
   Google Scholar
• Georgescu-Roegen, N. 1971. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Harvey, D. 1974. “Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science.” Economic Geography 50 (3): 256–277. doi: 10.2307/142863
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harvey, D. 1982. The Limits to Capital. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
   Google Scholar
• Harvey, D. 2003. The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Herrera, R. 2011. “A Critique of Mainstream Growth Theory: Ways Out of the Neoclassical Science (-Fiction) and Toward Marxism.” In Research in Political Economy, vol. 27, edited by P. Zarembka and R. Desai, 3–63. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• “Index of Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” 2017b. Eurostat. Accessed June 11, 2017. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/refreshTableAction.do?tab=table&plugin = 1&pcode = tsdcc100&language=en.
   Google Scholar
• Jackson, T. 2009. Prosperity without Growth. London: Earthscan.
   Google Scholar
• Kallis, G. 2015. “The Degrowth Alternative.” Accessed July 11, 2017. http://www.greattransition.org/publication/the-degrowth-alternative.
   Google Scholar
• Kallis, G., F. Demaria, and G. D’Alisa. 2014. “Introduction: Degrowth.” In Degrowth: A Vocabulary for A New Era, edited by G. D’Alisa, F. Demaria and G. Kallis, 1–18. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Kallis, G., C. Kerschner, and J. Martinez-Alier. 2012. “The Economics of Degrowth.” Ecological Economics 84: 172–180. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.08.017
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kerschner, C. 2010. “Economic De-growth vs. Steady-state Economy.” Journal of Cleaner Production 18 (6): 544–551. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.10.019
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koch, M. 2015. “Climate Change, Capitalism and Degrowth Trajectories to A Global Steady-State Economy.” International Critical Thought 5 (4): 439–452. doi: 10.1080/21598282.2015.1102078
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kovel, J. 1995. “Ecological Marxism and Dialectic.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 6 (4): 31–50. doi: 10.1080/10455759509358649
   Google Scholar
• Lapavitsas, C. 2009. “Financialised Capitalism: Crisis and Financial Expropriation.” Historical Materialism 17 (2): 114–148. doi: 10.1163/156920609X436153
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Latouche, S. 2009. Farewell to Growth. Oxford: Polity Press.
   Google Scholar
• Lekakis, J., and M. Kousis. 2013. “Economic Crisis, Troika and the Environment in Greece.” South European Society and Politics 18 (3): 305–331. doi: 10.1080/13608746.2013.799731
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li, M. 2008. “Climate Change, Limits to Growth, and the Imperative for Socialism.” Monthly Review 60 (3): 51–67. doi: 10.14452/MR-060-03-2008-07_4
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liodakis, G. 2010a. Totalitarian Capitalism and Beyond. Surrey: Ashgate.
   Google Scholar
• Liodakis, G. 2010b. “Political Economy, Capitalism and Sustainable Development.” Sustainability 2 (8): 2601–2616. doi: 10.3390/su2082601
   Google Scholar
• Liodakis, G. 2013. “Considering (Economic and Ecological) Crisis from a Communist Perspective.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 12 (1–2): 194–218. doi: 10.1163/15691497-12341251
   Google Scholar
• Liodakis, G. 2016. “An Exploration of Scarcity in Historical Perspective.” Science & Society 80 (2): 221–247. doi: 10.1521/siso.2016.80.2.221
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lipietz, A. 1986. “Behind the Crisis: The Exhaustion of a Regime of Accumulation: A ‘Regulation School’ Perspective on Some French Empirical Works.” Review of Radical Political Economics 18 (1–2): 13–32. doi: 10.1177/048661348601800102
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Martínez-Alier, J. 2012. “Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (1): 51–73. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2011.648839
   Google Scholar
• Marx, K. 1967a. Capital, vol. I. New York: International Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• Marx, K. 1967b. Capital, vol. III. New York: International Publishers.
   Google Scholar
• McMichael, P. 2009. “Contemporary Contradictions of the Global Development Project: Geopolitics, Global Ecology and the ‘Development Climate’.” Third World Quarterly 30 (1): 247–262. doi: 10.1080/01436590802622987
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Meadows, D. H., D. L. Meadows, and J. Randers. 1972. The Limits to Growth. New York: New American Library.
   Google Scholar
• Moore, J. W. 2010. “The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1450–2010.” Journal of Agrarian Change 10 (3): 389–413. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00276.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moore, J. W. 2011. “Transcending the Metabolic Rift: A Theory of Crises in the Capitalist World-Ecology.” Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (1): 1–46. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2010.538579
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moore, J. W. 2015a. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London: Verso.
   Google Scholar
• Moore, J. W. 2015b. “Nature in the Limits to Capital (and vice versa).” Radical Philosophy 193: 9–19.
   Google Scholar
• Moore, J. W. 2017. “Metabolic Rift or Metabolic Shift? Dialectics, Nature, and the World-Historical Method.” Accessed August 14, 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308520067.
   Google Scholar
• Moseley, F. 2013. “The US Economic Crisis: From a Profitability Crisis to an Overindebtedness Crisis.” Review of Radical Political Economics 45 (4): 472–477. doi: 10.1177/0486613412475187
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Murray, V. 2015. “The Protection of the Environment in Greece during the Crisis.” [In Greek.] Accessed December 18, 2015. www.huffingtonpost.gr/virginia-murray/-_3069_b_8836680.html.
   Google Scholar
• Neumayer, E. 2005. “Does High Indebtedness Increase Natural Resource Exploitation?” Environment and Development Economics 10 (2): 127–141. doi: 10.1017/S1355770X04001901
   Google Scholar
• O’Connor, J. 1998. Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism. New York: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2010. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Greece 2009. Paris: OECD. Accessed July 11, 2017. http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/environment/oecd-environmental-performance-reviews-greece-2009_9789264061330-en#.WXlg9vl69Ss#page1.
   Google Scholar
• Overbeek, H. 2012. “Sovereign Debt Crisis in Euroland: Root Causes and Implications for European Integration.” The International Spectator 47 (1): 30–48. doi: 10.1080/03932729.2012.655006
   Google Scholar
• Panayotakis, C. 2013. “Theorizing Scarcity: Neoclassical Economics and Its Critics.” Review of Radical Political Economics 45 (2): 183–200. doi: 10.1177/0486613412458649
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perelman, M. 1993. “Marx and Resource Scarcity.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 4 (2): 65–84. doi: 10.1080/10455759309358544
   Google Scholar
• Potts, N. 2011. “Marx and the Crisis.” Capital & Class 35 (3): 455–473. doi: 10.1177/0309816811419483
   Google Scholar
• “Real GDP Growth Rate.” 2017a. Eurostat. Accessed June 11, 2017. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/web/_download/Eurostat_Table_tec00115FlagDesc_4a40afab-d757-4070-98c2-ab00c7e239b2.xls.
   Google Scholar
• Reuveny, R. 2002. “Economic Growth, Environmental Scarcity, and Conflict.” Global Environmental Politics 2 (1): 83–110. doi: 10.1162/152638002317261481
   Google Scholar
• Romanou, N. 2014. “Economic and Ecological Crisis in Greece.” New Politics XIV (4), Accessed July 11, 2017. http://newpol.org/content/economic-and-ecological-crisis-in-greece.
   Google Scholar
• Saffari, A., N. Daher, C. Samara, D. Voutsa, A. Kouras, E. Manoli, O. Karagkiozidou, et al. 2013. “Increased Biomass Burning Due to the Economic Crisis in Greece and Its Adverse Impact on Wintertime Air Quality in Thessaloniki.” Environmental Science & Technology 47 (23): 13313–13320. doi: 10.1021/es403847h
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sanders, R. 2016. “The Flawed Paradigms of Economics and Sustainable Development.” International Journal of Sustainable Development 19 (2): 110–126. doi: 10.1504/IJSD.2016.077207
   Google Scholar
• Schneider, F., G. Kallis, and J. Martinez-Alier. 2010. “Crisis or opportunity? Economic degrowth for social equity and ecological sustainability. Introduction to this special issue.” Journal of Cleaner Production 18: 511–518. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.01.014
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schwartzman, D. 2012. “A Critique of Degrowth and Its Politics.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 23 (1): 119–125. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2011.648848
   Google Scholar
• Smith, R. 2010. “Beyond Growth or Beyond Capitalism?” Real-World Economics Review, no. 53: 28–42.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, M., and J. Butovsky. 2012. “Profitability and the Roots of the Global Crisis: Marx’s ‘Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall’ and the US Economy, 1950–2007.” Historical Materialism 12 (4): 3–38.
   Google Scholar
• Song, H.-Y. 2013. “Marxist Critiques of the Developmental State and the Fetishism of National Development.” Antipode 45 (5): 1254–1276.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stiglitz, J. 2003. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: WW Norton.
   Google Scholar
• Swyngedouw, E. 2009. “The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the Twenty-first Century.” Antipode 41 (SI): 298–319.
   Google Scholar
• Swyngedouw, E. 2014. “Depoliticization (‘the Political’).” In Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era, edited by G. D’Alisa, F. Demaria and G. Kallis, 90–93. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Tavasci, D., J. Saraswati, and B. Fine. 2013. Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the Twenty-First Century. London: Pluto Press.
   Google Scholar
• Trainer, T. 2010. “De-growth—Is Not Enough.” The International journal of Inclusive Democracy 6 (4), Accessed July 21, 2017. http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol6/vol6_no4_trainer_degrowth_not_enough.htm.
   Google Scholar
• Valavanidis, A., and T. Vlachogianni. 2016. “Environmental Crisis in Greece: The Consequences of Modernity and Economic Growth without Sustainability.” Accessed July 21, 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236281280_Environmental_Crisis_in_Greece_The_Consequences_of_Modernity_and_Economic_Growth_Without_Sustainabllity_Goals_A_review_of_the_basic_pollution_problems_environmental_protection_and_management_of_nature.
   Google Scholar
• Victor, P. 2012. “Growth, Degrowth and Climate Change: A Scenario Analysis.” Ecological Economics 84: 206–212. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.04.013
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar