Alternative Economics (Degrowth, Post-Growth, etc)
Economists, scientists, scholars, activists, theorists, communicators, & others who are progressing ideas, philosophies, & strategies that run counter to contemporary neoliberal economics. (Also ecosocialism, doughnut economics, et al.)
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@jessedamiani.bsky.social
@avansi.bsky.social
Professional amateur Co-author, The Sustainability Class (The New Press, December 2024) Co-author, The Future Is Degrowth (Verso, 2022) Mailing list: https://aaron.eo.page
@scientistrebellion.bsky.social
A global coalition of scientists who are calling for collective action and meaningful change on the climate crisis. The time is now. Join us! https://scientistrebellion.org/ways-to-join/ Contact: Scientistrebellion at protonmail dot com
@degrowth.bsky.social
Advocating for degrowth, ecosocialism, economic democracy, sufficiency, wellbeing economy. www.sufficiencywellbeing.com Member of the International Degrowth Network https://www.degrowth.net
@roberthockett.bsky.social
Cornell Law School, Georgetown Business School, Westwood Capital, New Consensus. Formerly Federal Reserve Bank of New York & International Monetary Fund. Law, Philosophy & Finance Devotee. Cf. my Forbes & SSRN Pages as well as my 'Capital Futures' Website.
@rohangrey.bsky.social
Aussie in Portland. Ass't Law Prof @ Willamette, into money & finance, technology, political economy, culture, public governance, pedagogy etc. Formerly att'y for children, school teacher, and musician. rohangrey.net @rohangrey:matrix.org
@stephaniekelton.bsky.social
Author of the NYT bestseller The Deficit Myth. Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University. Writer of newsletter https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/
@nathantankus.bsky.social
President of @crisesnotes.bsky.social (crisesnotes.com) Book: [About Undetermined], under contract with Viking Books email: crisesnotes(at)gmail(dot)com Signal: NathanTankus.01 (only for reporting... Okay on weekends you can confess crushes)
@videotroph.bsky.social
Critical Theory; money, media and aesthetics; abstraction; animation, heterodox econ @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
@urgentfutures.bsky.social
🔎 {signals} in noise Dialogues to clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos. Hosted by journalist, curator, & professor @jessedamiani.bsky.social. Subscribe⤵️ youtube.com/@UrgentFutures
@itsmccarthy.bsky.social
University of California Santa Cruz Prof. Director of Community Studies. Author: The Master’s Tools (Verso) + Dismantling Solidarity (Cornell). Senior Associate Editor: Critical Sociology. Likes: economic democracy, critical social theory, 2x2 tables.
@lhh.bsky.social
Author of Solidarity: the Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.
@adrien-fabre.bsky.social
CNRS researcher at CIRED. Founder of Global Redistribution Advocates. Youtuber: http://bit.ly/chaine_humaine Ex ENS Ulm, PSE, ETHZ. Economics, sustainability, politics.
@nnedi.bsky.social
*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
@nhold.bsky.social
Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
@dchungyalpa.bsky.social
Env strategist, bridge builder, ecofeminist, Himalayan. Working on inner + community + planetary resilience w/ faith & Indigenous leaders on environmental & climate efforts at @LokaInitiative, UW-Madison. Personal account - views are my own. She/ her.
@paashamahdavi.com
UCSB prof, researching climate politics and the oil industry. EGAPE Lab Director and co-founder of https://www.2035initiative.com/. Working to transition from the fossil fuel era. Posts expire after 30 days.
@jlcaviglia-harris.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, Environmental Economist with interests in tropcial deforestation and development in the Brazilian Amazon
@sujathaf.bsky.social
writer • Professor • migrant workers, social & labor movements, climate storytelling • author Curated Stories, The Cuban Hustle & more • rep'd by Maria Cardona • #FirstGen • yogi www.sujathafernandes.com
@decolonialitynow.bsky.social
Cluster of Excellence initiative @unifreiburg.bsky.social. De/Coloniality today in a global 🌏🌍🌎 perspective. Focus on decolonial research practices. https://uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/coloniality-decoloniality/
@shourodasgupta.bsky.social
Environmental economist, Fondazione CMCC Lecturer, Ca' Foscari Venezia Visiting Senior Fellow, @granthamlse.bsky.social Labour, food (in)security, health, inequality
@profemmakowal.bsky.social
Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
@arunacsekhar.bsky.social
Climate journalist, Carbon Brief. Interested in energy, climate, land, food, politics, rights, critters, culture. Recovering Twitter junkie. “Sekhar” as in “shaker”.📍Mumbai, India. Views, jokes = own.
@karilimax.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Climatology researching extreme events and disasters. Science communicator. Scientific coordinator APECS-Brazil (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) @oqvf.bsky.social project https://linktr.ee/karilimax
@amitav.bsky.social
Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'.
@liquidperson2.bsky.social
anthropologist researching water, cities, climate justice and infrastructure. www.nikhilanand.info
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@lisaschipper.bsky.social
Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social• Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social• Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social•IPCC AR6 CLA•she/her/Du•Servant to 4 rescue 🐈⬛ from 3 continents•🇸🇪 #ShowYourStripes Köln
@debtforclimate.bsky.social
Turn Global North Climate Debt into Climate Action by cancelling Global South debt to keep fossil fuels in the ground and fund a just transition! 👉🏿 www.debtforclimate.org
@ingridhk.bsky.social
Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
@tninstitute.bsky.social
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet.
@javedali.bsky.social
Water Resources Engineer & Climate Data Scientist working on multi-hazards risk assessment, compound events, water systems modeling, impacts of natural hazards, community resilience and climate change adaptation 🔗 Website: https://www.javedali.net
@sumitra.bsky.social
assistant professor @AmericanU. working on countering misinformation in developing countries. @penn PhD in polisci & philly sports fan https://sumitrabadrinathan.github.io/
@seema.bsky.social
Economics professor at Princeton. I study environmental conservation, gender equality, and (too many) other topics in developing countries. seemajayachandran.com
@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work. https://davidgraeber.institute
@zacklabe.com
Climate Scientist at @climatecentral.org | PhD | Passionate about improving science communication through data-driven stories | Princeton, NJ | https://zacklabe.com/ Views, thoughts, and opinions expressed here are only my own.
@akshatrathi.bsky.social
- Senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News - Newsletter http://bit.ly/bbg-zero - Podcast http://bloomberg.com/zero-podcast - Book https://akshatrathi.com/book - akshat.rathi@pm.me
@brentbleys.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ Department of Economics (Ghent University) and ecological economist - Beyond GDP, post-growth and sufficiency https://sites.google.com/view/brentbleys/ #standupforscience
@christopher-olk.bsky.social
PhD in the Freigeist Group "Offshore Finance" @ FU Berlin interested in the political economy of money, energy, and state capitalism
@andrewlfanning.bsky.social
Ecological economist. Research and Data Analysis at https://doughnuteconomics.org. Exploring a good life for all within planetary boundaries at http://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk
@corinna-viajera.bsky.social
feminist ecological economist @WU_Vienna | degrowth scholar activist | pronouns she/her | private account, but the private is political!
@eevahoutbeckers.bsky.social
Co-founder of Untame Collective, Degrowth Journal & Meidän metsämme | Research on #degrowth #postgrowth #postfossil #work #ParadigmShifts #ecofeminism | University of Eastern Finland & University of Helsinki | she/they | Also #cats #doodling #queerspawn 🌈
@matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
Prof Uni Flensburg • economic history and social-ecological transformation • author of HEGEMONY OF GROWTH and THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH • opinions my own
@felixvanhoften.bsky.social
Ecological Economics| Degrowth/Postgrowth | Researcher-lecturer University of Amsterdam & Rotterdam University AS | Author: De golven en de Kaap
@timjackson.org.uk
Ecological Economist and Playwright. Author of »The Care Economy« (2025), »Post Growth« (2021) and »Prosperity Without Growth« (2009/2017). Director of @cusp.ac.uk. 🌐 https://timjackson.org.uk
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
@morgan.bsky.social
Improv performer/teacher at UCB in NYC, guy who talks about A.I. a little too much. He/Him.
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
The world doesn't have to be this way. Biodiversity, climate risk, resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof environmental futures, conservation biology, Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UnivCapeTown
@sim.bsky.social
Nature, gardening, permaculture, design, localism, data commons, community building, organic business. Less abstraction more action (LAMA). Building permapeople.org & cultecon.com to help people feed themselves, their families, & their communities.
@agroecologymap.bsky.social
#Agroecology Map aims to assist in the #mapping of experiences with the goal of bringing people together to strengthen or create #collaborative networks that enhance the sharing of experiences in agroecology. https://agroecologymap.org/ 🌱 🌎 💚
@gidlord.bsky.social
At work in the ruins. Permaculturer. Land worker. Forest denizen. BSc Ecology. 👉🏼Grow food, repair soil, smash capitalism. Also party creator & disc jockier. Probably not a lord. 🌱 earthedup.com 🥒 pingleproduce.co.uk
@kateraworth.bsky.social
Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
@racheldonald.bsky.social
I investigate why the world is in crisis: planetcritical.com I also investigate what to do about it: planetcoordinate.com Join subscribers in 186 countries.
@ndindi.bsky.social
Kenyan, science educator, abolitionist, Black radical politics, critical pedagogy & sci-fi. Support Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA), our mutual aid network of care. linktr.ee/PUMA_LA
@themckenziest.gay
Anti-capitalist elder millesbian 💜 the only way to save ourselves is to save each other ✨i am 40 now✨ “Deranged Online Leftist” 💕🍍 @acab4cutie.top
@maxberger.bsky.social
Just happy to be here. Co-Founder IfNotNow, More Perfect Union, Momentum Training Institute. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc.
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@scarletred.bsky.social
filthy commie, musician, software engineer, momrade | intolerant left | real down to Mars girl 💫 read my blog: https://www.dialecticsofdecline.com
@proteanmag.com
An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art • Support our work at www.patreon.com/proteanmag • www.proteanmag.com/
@avierkant.bsky.social
Death Panel podcast, wrote Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton patreon.com/deathpanelpod
@reallandsend.bsky.social
co-host Death Panel Podcast | co-author Health Communism with Artie Vierkant | blind/sick/surplus www.deathpanel.net www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod www.beatriceadlerbolton.com
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@igd.bsky.social
In search of new forms of life. Digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reports on autonomous movements, social struggles, and revolt across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective. itsgoingdown.org
@zitkato.bsky.social
Host of Marx Madness Pod, formerly of Bands of Turtle Island, and now also Chunk Luta Podcast. Oglala Lakota, Decolonial Marxist
@jphillll.bsky.social
Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻 www.jphilll.com
@inthesetimes.com
A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
@means.tv
World’s first worker-owned streaming service with Movies, TV Shows & News. We make anti-capitalist entertainment. Start your 7-day free trial: https://means.tv/join
@carlbeijer.bsky.social
Socialist writer. Sign up for my newsletter at https://www.carlbeijer.com. Writing also at People's Policy Project, Jacobin, etc
@stevanzetti.bsky.social
special investigative correspondent @texasobserver.org • columnist @thebarbedwire.bsky.social • publisher @proteanmag.com • Signal: stevanzetti.12 Read my journalism: https://authory.com/stevenmonacelli Support my work: https://linktr.ee/Stevanzetti
@organizeworkers.bsky.social
Supporting all workers in any workplace. You deserve a union. Free resources & trainings on how to organize and start a union @ workerorganizing.org
@zei-squirrel.bsky.social
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere | http://youtube.com/ZeiSquirrel | http://tiktok.com/@zei_squirrel | http://zeisquirrel.substack.com | zei.squirrel@gmail.com
@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS. Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP, @litsciarts.org 📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF. ☭. Not a professional account.
@jamesgdyke.info
Earth systems prof & assistant director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social | Columnist @theipaper | Book Fire Storm & Flood https://tinyurl.com/jamesgyke
@rbaernthaler.bsky.social
Social-ecological economist | Eco-socialist | @envleeds.bsky.social, SRI | Co-lead, Research Group: https://tiny.cc/leeds_econopol | Associate Editor: https://tiny.cc/s_spp | European Society for Ecological Economics. https://tiny.cc/leeds_profile
@mmbuchs.bsky.social
Professor of Sustainable Welfare, University of Leeds. Sustainable welfare, social-ecological policy, just transitions. Post-growth/wellbeing economics. Deep socio-economic transformation. Views my own.
@scottsantens.com
Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) knowledge resource Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org Host of The Basic Income Show youtube.com/scottsantens My #UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com Contact me: linktr.ee/scottsantens
@leahstokes.bsky.social
Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com
@ketanjoshi.co
Analysis, research, writing and communications focused on anti-greenwashing and corporate accountability. Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
@sabrinafernandes.bsky.social
uma cientista cansada I'm a sociologist and political economist writing about Latin America, internationalism, ecosocialism and just transitions. Also Head of Research @alameda.institute. Find me: 🟠 the.ecocene.blog 🟤 sabrinafernandes.com
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@plutopress.bsky.social
An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world. plutobooks.com
@upstreampodcast.bsky.social
capitalism is failing us—there are alternatives /// hosted and produced by @robpertray.bsky.social & @dellazduncan.bsky.social
@robpertray.bsky.social
co-founding producer: @upstreampodcast.bsky.social currently reading "A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara" and "The Long Transition" by Torkil Lauesen
@petergleick.bsky.social
Climate, water, environmental security scientist, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023). Also on Mastodon. @petergleick@fediscience.org
@michaelemann.bsky.social
Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media/Vice Provost for Climate, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
@doctorvive.bsky.social
Founding Director, End Climate Silence Author, *The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It* genevieveguenther.com
@wimcarton.bsky.social
Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)
@triofrancos.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Providence College Strategic Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute Author / Resource Radicals (Duke UP 2020) Co-Author / A Planet to Win (Verso 2019) Forthcoming / Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism (WW Norton)
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development. I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Editorial Collective advancing #LeftMMT, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft