Matthias Schmelzer

Economic growth isn’t working. And it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism. Growing evidence shows that continued economic growth is incompatible with sustaining...

Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pèlerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, by the turn of the 1970s the society commanded influence at the highest levels of international monetary policy. Debates sparked by Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ludwig von Mises emigrated...