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In modern society, economic growth is considered to be the primary goal pursued through policymaking. But when and how did this perception become widely adopted among social scientists, politicians and the general public? Focusing on the OECD, one of the least understood international organisations, Schmelzer offers the first transnational study to chart the history of growth discourses. He reveals how the pursuit of GDP growth emerged as a societal goal and the ways in which the methods employed to measure, model and prescribe growth resulted in statistical standards, international policy frameworks and widely accepted norms. Setting his analysis within the context of capitalist development, post-war reconstruction, the Cold War, decolonization, and industrial crisis, The Hegemony of Growth sheds new light on the continuous reshaping of the growth paradigm up to the neoliberal age and adds historical depth to current debates on climate change, inequality and the limits to growth

Why is it that, in the critical debate on development and post-development, one often speaks mainly of the countries of the global South? What would it mean to direct the post-development perspective towards countries of the global North as well? These questions were at the origin of the debate on degrowth, which first developed in France in the 2000s. This article provides an overview of the current debate on degrowth, focusing on South-North critiques and proposals for system change. Based on the systematisation of transformation strategies by sociologist and utopian researcher Erik Olin Wright, the article analyses the extent to which degrowth is desirable, viable and achievable. ; ¿Por qué en el debate crítico sobre el desarrollo y el período posterior al desarrollo se suele hablar sólo de los países del Sur global? ¿Y qué significaría dirigir también la perspectiva posdesarrollo a los países del Norte global? Estas cuestiones están en el origen del debate sobre el decrecimiento desarrollado desde Francia a partir de la década de 2000. Este artículo ofrece una visión general del actual debate sobre el decrecimiento, centrándose en la crítica Sur-Norte y las propuestas de cambio de sistema. Basándose en la sistematización de las estrategias de transformación del sociólogo e investigador utópico Erik Olin Wright, este artículo analiza la medida en la que el decrecimiento es deseable, factible y alcanzable.

Degrowth promises to liberate society from the imperative of capital accumulation. "So how," Matthas Schmelzer and Elena Hofferberth wonder, "might planning beyond growth look?" It is not, they write, only a proposal for a postcapitalist society, but for a radical transformation of our institutions and social relations to create a more sustainable and just world.

Bei Degrowth oder Postwachstum handelt es sich – wie bei jedem politisch-aktivistischen Akteursspektrum – nicht um einen einheitlichen Block, sondern um ein in jeder Hinsicht (praktisch, sozial, politisch) heterogenes, von vielfältigen Spannungslinien durchzogenes Feld. In bisherigen Arbeiten wurden hier vor allem die inhaltlich-politischen Positionierungen im Degrowth-Spektrum analysiert und entsprechende Strömungen unterschieden. Unter Einbeziehung von Daten zur aktivistischen und alltäglichen Praxis der Befragten entwickeln wir in diesem Artikel mit Hilfe einer Multiplen Korrespondenzanalyse einer Teilnehmendenbefragung der Leipziger Degrowth-Konferenz 2014 ein Gesamtbild, eine Art "Landkarte", des sozialen Feldes des Degrowth-Spektrums, auf der Einstellungen und Praxis zueinander ins Verhältnis gesetzt werden.