The de-growth utopia: The incompatibility of de-growth within an internationalised market economy

Eco-socialism as Politics: Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-121

  Fotopoulos, Takis ^a  

^a International Journal of Inclusive Democracy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

De growth project; Ecological crisis; Growth economy; Inclusive democracy; Internationalised market economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872377303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3745-9_7     Document Type: Chapter

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