Matthias Schmelzer
Matthias
Schmelzer
BIO
Matthias is an economic historian and transformation researcher. He is currently substitute Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation at the University of Flensburg. He is author of the award-winning "The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Growth Paradigm" (Cambridge University Press, 2016), co-edited “Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation” and is co-author of “The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism” (Verso, 2022).
At THE NEW INSTITUTE Matthias is involved in the program Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning. Matthias will join us in the winter term of 2025.
PUBLICATIONS
The Hegemony of Growth. The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism. London: Verso, 2022.
Planning beyond Growth: The Case for Economic Democracy within Ecological Limits, (with Cédric Durand and Elena Hofferberth), in: Journal of Cleaner Production 437 (2024): 140351.
From Luddites to Limits? Towards a Systematization of Growth Critiques in Historical Perspective, in: Globalizations 20, no. 3 (2023): 447–64.
Research on Degrowth (with Giorgos Kallis, Vasilis Kostakis, Steffen Lange, Barbara Muraca, and Susan Paulson), in: Annual Review of Environment and Resources 43 (2018): 291–316.