Analysing the Beyond Growth Debate. An Explorative Assessment of Potential Promises and Pitfalls for Implementation of Alternative Economic Concepts in the Netherlands
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As a response to current environmental and social development crises, a public and academic debate has arisen about whether or not there is a need for more fundamental changes to our current economic system. In this Beyond debate, many alternative economic concepts have been proposed, however their implications for future societies are unclear. To provide more clarity in the debate and to examine potential implementation options of the suggested innovative policy routes in practice, this report examines in detail the alternative economic concepts: Green Growth; Mission Economy; Broader Welfare; Doughnut Economics; Degrowth; The Great Mindshift; and Buen Vivir; and their Dutch counterparts: Green Growth; Broad Welfare; Post Growth; and Purpose Economy. This paper examines the position of the various concepts in this debate in relation to each other, their proposed final impacts, and the policy routes towards these impacts, as well as possibilities to model quantitative impacts of the concepts, with a view to their potential implementation options in the Netherlands.
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TNO Identifier
996297
Publisher
TNO
Collation
100 p.
Place of publication
Petten