Limits. Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care by Giorgos Kallis: (Stanford briefs), Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2019, 168 pp., $14.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781503611559 and 9781503611566

Moving from the fringes of scholarship over recent years, degrowth has become a serious and credible theory of social and environmental change. However, the public political discourse has yet to catch up with these developments. In Italy, for example, degrowth had been put forward by a group of activists closely linked with the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S – Five Stars Movement). M5S is now in power but it seems that the realities of government forced it to reconsider its degrowth propositions (...)