After jacques_chester comment, I wonder (for everyone): what is you country, and is degrowth seen as something positive or negative in general in your country?
In Denmark and the UK, the narrative is appealing, not because of its merits but because it provides an alternative to austerity. It seems to be mostly utilized by the same hard-left that has always been more concerned with distributing wealth than creating it. In both countries, the main-stream left has long since realized that there is no alternative to reducing the deficit and bringing back growth.
> In both countries, the main-stream left has long since realized that there is no alternative to reducing the deficit and bringing back growth.
Although behind the scenes this may be the case, the rhetoric remains.
In the UK we still have Labour bleating about the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition making spending cuts "too hard, too fast" when they are barely making a dent in the annual deficit.
