Narratives for Wealth Systems Change
Post-growth and degrowth still borrow their authority from the Western canon they critique — Doughnut from Oxford welfare economics, degrowth from French philosophy — and the piece traces the narrative of rational authority from Aristotle through Locke, Kant and Hayek into the Berlin Conference and the Washington Consensus. Because that story was installed somatically, across generations, new economic stories must reach the nervous system, not just the intellect: a “syntropic narrative infrastructure” beginning from Global Majority knowledge. Strategy for the body-level layer that most economic narrative work skips.
Also see From Growth, through Degrowth, to a Pluriverse of Flourishings, Decolonizing degrowth in the post-development convergence - Questions, experiences, and proposals from two Indigenous territories.
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