Serge Latouche
Encyclopedia
Serge Latouche is a French
emeritus
professor
at the University of Paris-Sud and a critic of the consumer society
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French people
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emeritus
Emeritus
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professor
Professor
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at the University of Paris-Sud and a critic of the consumer society
Consumerism
Consumerism is a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts. The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen...
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Books
- Faut-il refuser le développement?: Essai sur l'anti-économique du Tiers-monde (Presses universitaires de France, 1986)
- La planète des naufragés: Essai sur l'après-développement (La Découverte, 1991)
- In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post-Development (Zed Books, London, 1993).
- The Westernization of the World: Significance, Scope and Limits of the Drive Towards Global Uniformity (Polity Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1996).
- L'Autre Afrique: Entre don et marché (Albin Michel, 1998).
- La Déraison de la raison économique: de l'efficacité au principe de précaution (Albin Michel, 2001).
- Justice sans limites: Le défi de l'éthique dans une économie mondialisée (Fayard, 2003).
- Décoloniser l'imaginaire : La Pensée créative contre l'économie de l'absurde (Parangon, 2003).
- Survivre au développement : De la décolonisation de l'imaginaire économique à la construction d'une société alternative (Mille et Une Nuits, 2004).
- La Mégamachine : Raison technoscientifique, raison économique et mythe du progrès, (2004).
- L'invention de l'économie, (2005).
- Le pari de la décroissance, (2006).
- Petit traité de la décroissance sereine, (Mille et Une Nuits, 2007)
Contributions to other books
- "Paradoxical Growth", Chapter 12 in The Post-Development Reader, ed. by Majid Rahnema & Victoria Bawtree (Zed Books, London, 1997).
Articles
- "Would the West actually be happier with less? The World Downscaled", Le Monde diplomatique (December 2003).
- "Why Less Should Be So Much More: Degrowth Economics", Le Monde diplomatique (December 2004).
- "Can democracy solve all problems?", The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol.1, No. 3 (May 2005).
- "A bas le développement durable ! Vive la decroissance conviviale !", Institut d'études économiques et sociales pour la décroissance soutenable (Institute for Economic and Social Studies for Sustainable Degrowth) (Paris, January 2006).
- "How do we learn to want less? The globe downshifted", Le Monde diplomatique (January 2006).
- "De-growth: an electoral stake?" The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 2007).
External links
- Interview to Serge Latouche, Let's give a name to the future: Development or Degrowth? by Wilma Massucco for Eugad project