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SUMMARY:Welfare in a post-growth context - Professor Milena Büchs (Univer
 sity of Leeds)
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DESCRIPTION:The climate and ecological emergencies are accelerating and ta
 ckling them becomes more urgent every day. More and more academics and pol
 icymakers take seriously evidence which suggests that decoupling economic 
 growth from emissions and material use at the scale and speed required to 
 stay within planetary boundaries does not currently look feasible. Several
  studies also argue that once certain levels of income are achieved\, econ
 omic growth no longer significantly contributes to improving wellbeing and
  can be linked to increasing inequality and other social disbenefits. Post
 -growth has been suggested as an alternative – an economic system that i
 s designed not to rely on economic growth but to safeguard people’s well
 being within planetary boundaries. \n\nHowever\, within social policy\, pr
 o-growth positions prevail. One of the underlying assumptions is that grow
 th is required to sustain welfare state funding\, especially in a context 
 of ageing societies. In this talk\, Milena Büchs will challenge this view
  and discuss proposals from the literature on ways in which welfare states
  could be funded in a post-growth context\, including wealth and environme
 ntal taxes\, and ideas from modern monetary theory on money creation throu
 gh government spending. The analysis will suggest that while there are ine
 vitable links between changes in the size of the economy and changes in re
 venues or available funding at given levels of taxation\, this does not ne
 cessarily imply that the provision of welfare relies on a growth-based eco
 nomy. The talk will then discuss which other levers become important from 
 a post-growth perspective for providing welfare without growth. \n\n——
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 ———————————————————\n\nMilena Büchs
  is Professor of Sustainable Welfare at the University of Leeds. She speci
 alises in sustainable welfare\, eco-social policy and climate justice. \n\
 nMilena started applying a social policy lens to climate change issues aro
 und 18 years ago after completing a PhD in European social policy at the H
 umboldt University Berlin. She held a lectureship in sociology and social 
 policy at the University of Southampton from 2005 onwards before joining t
 he Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds in 2016.\n
 \nMilena has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and two book
 s\, and has been Principal and Co-Investigator on several large research p
 rojects. Currently\, she is a Co-I on the Horizon Europe projects “ToBe 
 – Towards an Economy for Sustainable Wellbeing” and “MAPS – Models
 \, Assessment and Policy for Sustainability”. \n\n———————
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 le outside of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI). DSP
 I Members do not need to register\nSpeakers:\nProfessor Milena Büchs (Uni
 versity of Leeds)
LOCATION:32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House) (VBR Department of Social
  Policy and Intervention\, 32 Wellington Square OX1 2ER/ Microsoft Teams)\
 , 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
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