SLOW DOWN

THE DEGROWTH MANIFESTO
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Inglés
Número de páginas: 
288
Dimensiones: 226 cm × 152 cm × 0 cm
Fecha de publicación: 
2025
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978-1-6626-0272-6

[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise. . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal.
--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning?

In his international bestseller, Kohei Saito argues that while unfettered capitalism is often blamed for inequality and climate change, subsequent calls for "sustainable growth" and a "Green New Deal" are a dangerous compromise. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity by pursuing profit based on the value of products rather than their usefulness and by putting perpetual growth above all else. It is therefore impossible to reverse climate change in a capitalist society--more: the system that caused the problem in the first place cannot be an integral part of the solution.

Instead, Saito advocates for degrowth and deceleration, which he conceives as the slowing of economic activity through the democratic reform of labor and production. In practical terms, he argues for:

the end of mass production and mass consumption
decarbonization through shorter working hours
the prioritization of essential labor over corporate profits


By returning to a system of social ownership, he argues, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.

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SAITO, KOHEI

Kohei Saito (Tokio, 1987) es un aclamado filósofo de economía japonés. Tras doctorarse en Filosofía por la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín, en 2018 fue el ganador más joven del prestigioso premio Deutscher Memorial por su obra La naturaleza contra el capital, traducida a siete lenguas y loada como una «obra monumental» por el filósofo Slavoj Žižek. Su segundo libro publicado, El capital en la era del Antropoceno, ha sido un enorme éxito de ventas en Japón, con casi medio millón de lectores, y ha recibido el Asian Book Award 2021 al mejor libro del año por capturar, con suma claridad y gran aceptación entre los jóvenes nipones, el cambio necesario en nuestra era. Actualmente, Saito es profesor asociado de Filosofía en la Universidad de Tokio.

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