Ralentir ou périr: L’économie de la décroissance, by Timothée Parrique

• Published: 16/09/2022
• Pages: 320
• ISBN: 9782021508093
• Published by Seuil

Based on Timothée’s extremely popular PhD thesis: The Political Economy of Degrowth, Ralentir ou périr is a top seller in France, and is currently being translated into English, German, Spanish, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. ‘Slow Down or Perish’ (English translation) should be available for US and Canadian markets in 2025, and will be one not to be missed.

Watch this 10 minute presentation by Timothée at the EU Beyond Growth conference in May 2023 to get a feel for how incredible his work is.

About the Author, Timothée Parrique:

“Timothée Parrique is an economist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).

He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre(Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.

Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a wide-audience book adaptation of his PhD dissertation. 

Tim frequently writes about green growth and decoupling; he is the lead author of “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).

He blogs at https://timotheeparrique.com and posts at @timparrique (Twitter), timotheeparrique (Insta), and @timparrique (Mastodon).”

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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