La recent chronicle of Jean Pisani-Ferry devoted to decay pushes us to react collectively, as members of the French-speaking society of ecological economy. Write that she is a fuzzy concept, that she has, “Macroeconomically, no clear sense” In the aftermath of the closure of the international conference organized jointly by the Linternational Society for Ecological Economics and the International Degrowth Conference, returns to deliberately closely closing their research decades and hundreds of scientific articles published on the subject.
Say that decrease does not offer “Better measure of economic performance” that the gross domestic product (GDP) and its derivatives is to miss out on the subject of this movement, which does not reduce the question of measurement to a purely technical choice and intends to give the center of the debate the purposes of economic activity – ensuring a collective life, which is not done at the expense of the environment, the poorest or future generations.
There is no ” a “ Macroeconomic theory behind the notion of decrease, but a diversity of research teams that coexist, exchange and strengthen the theoretical foundations of a new economic model. A whole part of this research is devoted to macroeconomic modeling of what would be “A planned and democratic transformation of the economic system in order to radically reduce the ecological impact and inequalities and to improve well-being”to use the most recent common definition of decay. Admittedly, there is still work to think in particular relations between countries in the North and South. Certainly, there is not a turnkey system. But, in the 1960s, [Milton] Friedman, [Friedrich] Hayek and the members of Mont-Pèlerin have anything other than theories, whose news constantly reminds us of failures?
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