Prof. Dr. Matthias Schmelzer Univ.-Prof. for Social-Ecological Transformation Research Director of the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research University of Flensburg Auf dem Campus 1b | Room: TAL 305 D–24943 Flensburg – Germany Tel: +49 461 805 2871 E–Mail: matthias.schmelzer@uni-flensburg.de Web: uni-flensburg.de/nec ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3987-1930 Academic positions 1 Academic formation 2 Non-academic positions and activities 3 Research projects 3 Awards, grants and scholarships 4 Membership 5 Review activities 5 Organization of conferences and sessions 6 Publications 7 Press articles, interviews and podcasts 15 Lectures, Keynotes, Panels 16 RESEARCH INTERESTS Social-ecological transformation, economic history, sustainability, social movements, climate crises, neoliberalism, capitalism, economics, degrowth ACADEMIC POSITIONS Since 11/2024 University of Flensburg Full professor for social–ecological transformation research and Director of the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research 2023–2024 University of Flensburg Interim professor for social-ecological transformation research (W3) 2019–2023 Friedrich Schiller University Jena Postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institute of Sociology, Junior Research Group “Mentalities in flux. Imaginaries in Modern Circular Bio- Based Societies” 2023 University of Copenhagen Visiting professor at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking mailto:matthias.schmelzer@uni-flensburg.de https://www.uni-flensburg.de/nec https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3987-1930 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 2 2023 University of Vienna Teaching position in Master program “International Politics and Development” 2022 European University Flensburg Teaching position in Master program “Transformation Studies” Since 2022 Autonomous University of Barcelona Teaching position in “International Master on Degrowth: Ecology, Economics and Policy” 2018–2020 University of Zurich Teaching position at the Historical Seminar 2015–2019 Friedrich Schiller University Jena Permanent Fellow at the DFG-Research Group “Post-Growth Societies” 2015–2016 University of Zurich Postdoc at the Research Center for Social and Economic History 2013–2015 Université de Genève Postdoc at the Paul Bairoch Institute for Economic History 2009–2013 European University Viadrina, Frankfurt and Humboldt University Berlin Graduate program “Transformations in Global Governance. Europe and the World Order in Historical Perspective” 2010–2013 German-French doctoral program “Construire les différences: l’histoire comme objet et comme représentation”, Paris and Berlin 2012 Winter School VolkswagenStiftung “Revisiting Limits to Growth”, Hannover 2010 ESTER: Posthumus Institute, Netherlands European graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research ACADEMIC FORMATION 2013 Dissertation: The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm (summa cum laude) 2005–2006 University of California, Berkeley Master studies in history, economics, development studies, political science, and sociology 2003–2008 Humboldt University Berlin Master in Modern and Contemporary History, Political Science, and Philosophy (final grade 1,0) 1988–2001 Freie Waldorfschule Heidelberg Abitur (final grade: 1,0) CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 3 NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES 2015 to 2023 Laboratory for a New Economy (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V.) Part-time collaborator in various projects on heterodox economic approaches, socio-ecological transformation, utopias, migration, climate justice. Publication of various books and policy papers; organization and conception of workshops, network meetings and large conferences. Among other things, the two-year networking and multimedia project Degrowth in Movement(s), the conference Self-determined and Solidarity! Conference on Migration, Development and Ecological Crises, the project Future for All. A vision for 2048, as well as the project Building Blocks for Climate Justice with a focus on ecological reparations. Since 2007 Public lectures on economic history, economic theory, heterodox economics, sustainability, and social-ecological transformation Keynotes, lectures, panels and workshops, many of them international, including Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Senegal, Slovenia, Spain, Colombia, Canada, USA. In very different contexts, from business associations to trade unions, international organizations, church and development policy groups, student organizations, political networks, festivals etc. Among others at: European Business Summit, climate camps, ASA, Elevate Festival, Attac, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Greenpeace, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, FAU, World Social Forum, OECD, Network for Plural Economics, re:publica, Red May Seattle and many more, 2017–2021 Support group of the International Degrowth Conferences Responsible for international degrowth conferences and coordination 2008–2009 World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED e.V.) Research and campaign work on international financial markets, publication of two studies on financial market regulation and global governance Since 2008 Active in various social movements and alternative economic initiatives, including Attac, in climate justice groups, with Scientists for Future and Scientists Rebellion, foundation of the Network for Economic Change RESEARCH PROJECTS 2019–2025 Mentalities in flux. Imaginaries in Modern Circular Bio-Based Societies Postdoctoral researcher in the BMBF-funded Junior Research Group “Mentalities in flux. Imaginaries in Modern Circular Bio-Based Societies” at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, responsible for the historical module. 2015–2019 Post-Growth Societies Permanent Fellow at the DFG-Research Group “Post-Growth Societies” at the Frie- drich Schiller University Jena, responsible for an empirical study on the degrowth movement (based on survey data), mapping various currents within the debate around social-ecological transformation and post-growth, as well as writing the first academic introductory book on degrowth in German: “Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung” (Junius, with Andrea Vetter). CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 4 2013–2016 Warden of the West. The OECD and the Global Political Economy, 1948 to present Postdoc at the Research Center for Social and Economic History of the University of Zürich (2015-16) and the Paul Bairoch Institute for Economic History of the Univer- sité de Genève in the SNF-funded “OECD History Project”. Responsible for analyz- ing decolonization, economic crises, the critique of economic growth, as well as international environmental policies. AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2025 Project on ecological planning at The New Institute, Hamburg, fellowship working with Prof. Kohei Saito 2023 Visiting professor at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking, University of Copenhagen 2016 and 2018 Fellowships (as Permanent Fellow) at the DFG Research Group Postgrowth Socie- ties, Friedrich Schiller University Jena 2010–2018 Various larger non-academic grants for collective projects at the intersection of civil society and academia 2015 Best Dissertation Prize of the International Economic History Association (IEHA), awarded at the World Economic History Congress in Kyoto 2015 Friedrich Lütge Prize of the Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (German Society for Social and Economic History) 2014 Kapp Research Prize of the Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie (German Associ- ation for Ecological Economics) 2009–2013 Grant of the European University Viadrina in the graduate program “Transfor- mations in Global Governance. Europe and the World Order in Historical Perspec- tive” 2010–2013 Scholarship from the French-German doctoral program “Construire les différences: l’histoire comme objet et comme représentation”, Paris and Berlin 2012 Research grant of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. 2012 Scholarships for archival research by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2011 Research grant of the German Historical Institute, London 2010 Research grant of the Institut Historique Allemand, Paris 2005–2006 Grant of the Humboldt University Berlin for one year master studies at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 5 2005 Johann-Gustav-Droysen Prize of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin for best research paper 2001 Scheffel-Prize for achievements in German, awarded by the Literarische Gesell- schaft Karlsruhe MEMBERSHIP Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) – Sektions Umweltsoziologie European Parliament History Research Network Earth System Governance (ESG) – Senior Fellow EnJust Network for Environmental Justice Gesellschaft für sozioökonomische Bildung und Wissenschaft (GSÖBW) Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung – AK Umwelt, Proteste, Ressourcenkonflikte International Network for Sufficiency Research & Policy (ENOUGH) Network „Wissen und Wirtschaft“, ETH Zürich and University of Konstanz Post-growth Economics Network (PEN) The Global Politics of Post-Growth Network REVIEW ACTIVITIES (SELECTION) Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC) (Review Editor) Bloomsbury Publishing Bristol University Press Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (CHANCE) Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte Ecological Economics Einstein Foundation European Commission European Research Council (ERC) Energy Review of Social Sciences Fulbright Futures Global Studies Quarterly Innovation Manchester University Press Nature Human Behavior Polity Press Review of International Political Economy Routledge Suhrkamp Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Université Libre de Bruxelles ZED books Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 6 ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SESSIONS Organization of Special Sessions, Roundtables or Panels International conference Labour Environmentalism: Crisis, Perspectives and Strategies (Berlin, 2025) World Congress of Environmental History (Oulu, Finland, 2024) Schweizer Geschichtstage (Geneve, 2022) Just Recovery Gathering (350.org, 2021) Fourth European Congress on World History (ENUIGH, Paris, 2014) World Economic History Conference (WEHC, Kyoto, 2015) 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (Leipzig, 2014) 3rd International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (Venice, 2013) Conference of the Socio-Economic History Society of Japan (Tokyo, 2013) 9th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC, Glasgow, 2012) Organization of Workshops or Conferences Mental Infrastructures of Modern Fossil and Bio-based Societies (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) 2022 International Workshop It’s the (bio)economy, stupid! The future of growth and the promise of the bioeconomy (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) 2020 International Workshop Self-Determined and in Solidarity! Conference on Migration, Development and Ecological Crisis (Uni- versity of Leipzig) 2017 Conference in three languages (German, English, French), organized amongst others with several self-organized refugee groups (approximately 700 participants) Warden of the West. The OECD and the global political economy, 1948 to present (University of Zur- ich) 2015 International conference at the University of Zurich, co-organized with Matthieu Leimgruber Degrowth in practice: Climate Justice Summer School (Rhineland) 2015 Large activist-academic summer school in the Rhenish lignite mining area south of Cologne (approx. 500 participants), co-organization and program 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (University of Leipzig) 2014 Large academic conference at the University of Leipzig (approx. 3000 participants) Beyond Growth?! (Technical University of Berlin) 2011 Large activist-oriented conference at the Technical University of Berlin (approx. 2500 participants) Arbeit? Geld? Leben! Feministische Perspektiven (Berlin) 2010 Attac, Werkstatt der Kulturen Berlin CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 7 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Schmelzer, M. (2025). Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order. London/New York: Verso. Eversberg, D., Fritz, M., von Faber, L., & Schmelzer, M. (2024). Der neue sozial-ökologische Klassen- konflikt: Mentalitäts- und Interessengegensätze im Streit um Transformation. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. Reviews in: Soziopolis, taz – die tageszeitung, Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit, Contraste, social.net Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie (2023). Bausteine für Klimagerechtigkeit. 8 Maßnahmen für eine solidarische Zukunft. München: Oekom. Vetter, A., Vansintjan, A., & Schmelzer, M. (2022). The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism. London/New York: Verso. Translations published or in preparation: Italian, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, Czech, Vietnamese. Academic reviews in A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, Apocalyptica, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Environmental Values, Degrowth Journal, Geographica Helvetica, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Journal of Political Ecology, Monthly Review, New Left Review, Sociological Research Online, The New Political Science Other reviews in Bookbuster, Hindustan Times, Columbia Law blog, Green European Journal, Montreal Review of Books, occupy.com, Brave New Europe, Netzwerkkommunalismus, Bella Caledonia, Defector, La revista 15/15\15, Spectre Journal, Socialist Worker, The Trouble, Terrestres, Yeşil Gazete, Yes magazine Kuhnhenn, K., Pinnow, A., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2020). Zukunft für alle: Eine Vision für 2048 – gerecht. ökologisch. machbar. München: Oekom. English translation: Kuhnhenn, K., Pinnow, A., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2024). Future for All: A vision for 2048. S.l.: Mayflybooks/Ephemera. Schmelzer, M., & Vetter, A. (2019). Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Hamburg: Junius. Reviews in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, analyse & kritik, OXI, Soziopolis, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Adademie für Gemeinwohl, Blog Postwachstum, Jenapolis, Robert Jungk Bibliothek für Zukunftsfragen, Degrowth.info Schmelzer, M. (2016). The Hegemony of Growth. The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviews in Contributions to Political Economy, Economic History Review, H-Soz-Kult, International Journal for the Historiography of Education, Local Environment, Oeconomia, The Historical Journal Passadakis, A., & Schmelzer, M. (2011). Postwachstum. Krise, ökologische Grenzen, soziale Rechte. Hamburg: VSA-Verlag. Reviews in Graswurzelrevolution, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, Social Innovation, Kritisch-Lesen, NachDenkSeiten, WSI-Besprechungen Schmelzer, M. (2010). Freiheit für Wechselkurse und Kapital. Die Ursprünge neoliberaler Währung- spolitik und die Mont Pèlerin Society. Marburg: Metropolis. Review in H-Soz-Kult https://www.versobooks.com/products/3087-freedom-for-capital-not-people https://www.versobooks.com/products/3087-freedom-for-capital-not-people https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/der_neue_sozial_oekologische_klassenkonflikt-18313.html https://www.campus.de/e-books/wissenschaft/der_neue_sozial_oekologische_klassenkonflikt-18313.html https://www.soziopolis.de/von-klimawandel-und-klassenfrage.html https://taz.de/Buch-ueber-Konflikte-in-der-Gesellschaft/!6033095/ /Users/doznecscm/Downloads/SuN+Blog+Rezension+Der+neue+sozialökologische+Klassenkonflikt.pdf https://www.contraste.org/ https://www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/32382.php https://www.oekom.de/buch/bausteine-fuer-klimagerechtigkeit-9783987260735 https://www.oekom.de/buch/bausteine-fuer-klimagerechtigkeit-9783987260735 https://www.versobooks.com/products/2620-the-future-is-degrowth https://www.versobooks.com/products/2620-the-future-is-degrowth https://www.ledizioni.it/prodotto/il-futuro-e-decrescita/ https://product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S000208702894 https://nerust.cz/aktuality/vysel-preklad-knihy-budoucnost-je-nerust/ https://bookhunterlyceum.org/ra-mat-tuong-lai-se-la-thoai-tang-truong-huong-dan-toi-mot-the-gioi-vuot-ra-khoi-chu-nghia-tu-ban/ https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol2/iss1/10/?utm_source=scholarsjunction.msstate.edu%2Femancipations%2Fvol2%2Fiss1%2F10&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/apocalyptica/article/view/24759 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2022.2126129?scroll=top&needAccess=true https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10455752.2022.2126129?scroll=top&needAccess=true https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09632719241227281 https://www.degrowthjournal.org/publications/2023-10-20-in-search-of-both-vision-and-strategy-for-degrowth/ https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/77/417/2022/ https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsr/article-abstract/17/2/208/385779/The-Future-Is-Degrowth-A-Guide-to-a-World-Beyond?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsr/article-abstract/17/2/208/385779/The-Future-Is-Degrowth-A-Guide-to-a-World-Beyond?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/5122/ https://monthlyreview.org/2022/11/01/strategies-for-degrowth/ https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/mish-mash-ecologism https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804241275261 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13607804241275261 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2023.2237814?needAccess=true https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/arts/bookbuster-review-58/ https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/review-the-future-is-degrowth-by-schmelzer-vetter-and-vansintjan-101675259336510.html https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/zartosht-ahlers-a-politics-of-sacrifice-a-review-of-the-future-is-degrowth/ https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/is-degrowth-the-future/ https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/aaron-vansintjan-the-future-is-degrowth/ https://occupy.com/article/green-new-deal-xviii-future-degrowth#sthash.6IaYNqVd.dpbs https://timotheeparrique.com/book-review-the-future-is-degrowth/ https://netzwerkkommunalismus.wordpress.com/2022/07/01/die-zukunft-ist-degrowth/ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/07/19/the-future-of-degrowth-and-radical-independence/ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2022/07/19/the-future-of-degrowth-and-radical-independence/ https://defector.com/growth-for-what-the-shaky-promise-of-green-capitalism https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2022/09/26/el-futuro-es-decrecimiento-una-pobre-resena-a-un-trabajo-meritorio/ https://spectrejournal.com/class-struggle-against-growth/ https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/long-reads/the-future-is-degrowth-by-matthias-schmelzer-andrea-vetter-and-aaron-vansintjan-review/ https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2022/11/7/book-review-and-author-interview-the-future-is-degrowth https://www.terrestres.org/2024/01/19/au-dela-du-capitalisme-la-decroissance-comme-abondance-partagee/ https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/work/2022/08/16/degrowth-gains-ground https://www.oekom.de/buch/zukunft-fuer-alle-9783962382575 https://www.oekom.de/buch/zukunft-fuer-alle-9783962382575 https://mayflybooks.org/future-for-all-a-vision-for-2048/ https://mayflybooks.org/future-for-all-a-vision-for-2048/ https://www.junius-verlag.de/Programm/Zur-Einfuehrung/Degrowth-Postwachstum-zur-Einfuehrung.html https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/matthias-schmelzer-andrea-vetter/degrowth-postwachstum-zur-einfuehrung.html https://oxiblog.de/systemwandel-mit-system-postwachstum/ https://www.soziopolis.de/raus-aus-dem-kapitalismus-und-dann.html 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https://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Freiheit-fuer-Wechselkurse-und-Kapital/791/book.do https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-15128 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 8 EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES Ufer, J., Windegger, F., Roy, B., & Schmelzer, M. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Global Degrowth. (Inter)dependencies, power, and justice. Special Issue of New Global Studies. Bruno, A., & Schmelzer, M. (Eds.). (forthcoming). Degrowth and Environmental History. Special Forum in Environmental History. Burkhart, C., Schmelzer, M. & Treu, N. (Eds.). (2020). Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation. London: Zer0 Books. Eversberg, D., Schmelzer, M. & Schmidt, G. (Eds.). (2018). Entwachstum – Utopie, Konturen und Spannungen des Degrowth-Spektrums. Special Issue of Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 31(4). Borowy, I., & Schmelzer, M. (Eds.). (2017). History of the Future of Economic Growth: Historical Roots of Current Debates on Sustainable Degrowth. London and New York: Routledge. Leimgruber, M., & Schmelzer, M. (Eds.). (2017). The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Burkhart, C., Schmelzer, M. & Treu, N. (Eds.). (2017). Degrowth in Bewegung(en). 32 alternative Wege zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation. München: Oekom. Rätz, W., von Egan-Krieger, T., Muraca, B., Passadakis, A., Schmelzer, M. & Vetter, A. (Eds.). (2011). Ausgewachsen! Ökologische Gerechtigkeit, soziale Rechte, gutes Leben. Hamburg: VSA- Verlag. JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED) Janischewski, A., Bohnenberger, K., Kranke, M., Vogel, T., Driouich, R., Froese, T., Gerold, S., Kauf- mann, R., Keysser, L., Niethammer, J., Olk, C., Schmelzer, M., Yürük, A., & Lange, S. (under review). It depends: Varieties of defining growth dependence. Keyßer, L., Steinberger, J. & Schmelzer, M. (2025). Economic growth dependencies and imperatives: A review of key theories and their conflicts. Ecological Economics, 238, p. 108745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108745 Fitzpatrick, N., Eversberg, D. & Schmelzer, M. (2025). Exploring the degrowth movement: A survey of conceptualisations, strategies, and tactics. Energy Research & Social Science, 124, 104045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104045 Schmelzer, M. & Büttner, M. (2024). Fossil mentalities: How fossil fuel use has historically shaped and was shaped by societal imaginaries. Geoforum, 150, 103981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103981 Durand, C., Hofferberth, E., & Schmelzer, M. (2024). Planning beyond Growth: The Case for Economic Democracy within Ecological Limits. Journal of Cleaner Production, 437, 140351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140351 Schmelzer, M. & Nowshin, T. (2023). Ecological Reparations and Degrowth: Towards a Convergence of Alternatives Around World-making After Growth. Development, 66, 15–22. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-023-00360-9 Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Degrowth and Masculinities: Towards a gendered under- standing of degrowth subjectivities. Degrowth Journal, 1. https://www.degrowthjournal.org/publications/2023-04-26-degrowth-and-masculinities- towards-a-gendered-understanding-of-degrowth-subjectivities Schmelzer, M. (2023). From Luddites to Limits? Towards a systematization of growth critiques in historical perspective. Globalizations, 20(3), 447–464. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2106044 https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/degrowth-movements https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/degrowth-movements https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/fjsb-2018-0076/html https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/fjsb-2018-0076/html https://www.routledge.com/History-of-the-Future-of-Economic-Growth-Historical-Roots-of-Current-Debates-on-Sustainable-Degrowth/Borowy-Schmelzer/p/book/9781138499676 https://www.routledge.com/History-of-the-Future-of-Economic-Growth-Historical-Roots-of-Current-Debates-on-Sustainable-Degrowth/Borowy-Schmelzer/p/book/9781138499676 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-60243-1 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-60243-1 https://www.oekom.de/buch/degrowth-in-bewegung-en-9783865818522 https://www.oekom.de/buch/degrowth-in-bewegung-en-9783865818522 https://www.vsa-verlag.de/detail/artikel/ausgewachsen/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108745 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104045 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103981 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140351 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-023-00360-9 https://www.degrowthjournal.org/publications/2023-04-26-degrowth-and-masculinities-towards-a-gendered-understanding-of-degrowth-subjectivities https://www.degrowthjournal.org/publications/2023-04-26-degrowth-and-masculinities-towards-a-gendered-understanding-of-degrowth-subjectivities https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2106044 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 9 Dengler, C., & Schmelzer, M. (2021). Anmerkungen zu Niko Paechs Postwachstumsökonomie”, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 22(2), 191–195. https://doi.org/10.5771/1439-880x-2021-2-191 Schmelzer, M. (2021). De Maldesarrollo a Decrecimiento: Una visión posfósil y globalmente justa para las sociedades del Norte global. Gestión y Ambiente, 24 (supl1). https://doi.org/10.15446/ga.v24nsupl1.91882 Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2019). Degrowth vs Green New Deal: Gekoppelt wird ein Schuh draus. politische ökologie, 159, 31–37. Kallis, G., Kostakis, V., Lange, S., Muraca, B., Paulson, S., & Schmelzer, M. (2018). Research on Degrowth. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 43, 291–316. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941 Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2018). The Degrowth Spectrum: Convergence and Divergence within a Diverse and Conflictual Alliance. Environmental Values, 27(3), 245–267. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327118X15217309300822 Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2017). Mehr als Weniger: Erste Überlegungen zur Frage nach dem Postwachstumssubjekt. Psychosozial, 40(2), 83–100. doi.org/10.30820/0171-3434-2017-2-83 Schmelzer, M. (2017). ‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome. Journal of Global History, 12(1), 26–48. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022816000322 Schmelzer, M. & Eversberg, D. (2017). Beyond growth, capitalism, and industrialism? Consensus, divisions and currents within the emerging movement for sustainable degrowth. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 9(1), 327–356. Plehwe, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2015). Marketing marketization: The Power of Neoliberal Expert, Consulting, and Lobby Networks. Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, 12(3), 488–499. https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-1430 Schmelzer, M. (2015). Entwickelter Norden, unterentwickelter Süden? Wissenseliten, Entwicklungs- hilfe und die Konstruktion des Westens in der OEEC und OECD. Comparativ, 25(3), 18–35. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2015.03.02 Schmelzer, M. (2015). ‘Expandiere oder stirb’: Wachstumsziele, die OECD und die Steigerungslogik wirtschaftlicher Expansion. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 41(3), 355–393. https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2015.41.3.355 Schmelzer, M. (2015). The growth paradigm: History, hegemony, and the contested making of eco- nomic growthmanship. Ecological Economics, 118, 262–271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.029 Schmelzer, M. (2012). The Crisis before the Crisis: The ‘Problems of Modern Society’ and the OECD, 1968–1974. European Review of History, 19(6), 999–1020. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2012.739148 Schmelzer, M. (2010). Marketing morals, moralizing markets: Assessing the effectiveness of Fair Trade as a form of boycott. Management & Organizational History, 5(2), 221–250. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935910361645 JOURNAL ARTICLES Lange, S. & Schmelzer, M. (forthcoming). Beyond the Growth Dilemma: Why Europe Should Embrace a Post-Growth Strategy for Sustainability and Stability. Intereconomics. Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2025). Von der Verteidigung zur Transformation der Lebensweise: Warum es mit der Klimapolitik hakt, und wie sich die Blockade überwinden ließe. Ökologisches Wirtschaften, 40(2), 19–21. https://doi.org/10.14512/OEW400219 https://doi.org/10.5771/1439-880x-2021-2-191 https://doi.org/10.15446/ga.v24nsupl1.91882 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102017-025941 https://doi.org/10.3197/096327118X15217309300822 https://doi.org/10.30820/0171-3434-2017-2-83 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022816000322 https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-1430 https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2015.03.02 https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2015.41.3.355 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.029 https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2012.739148 https://doi.org/10.1177/1744935910361645 https://doi.org/10.14512/OEW400219 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 10 Hofferberth, E., & Schmelzer, M. (2024). Sozial-ökologische Planung für eine demokratische Post- wachstumsökonomie. Ökologisches Wirtschaften, 39(1), 26–27. https://doi.org/10.14512/OEW390126 Schmelzer, M. (2023). Degrowth als Notwendigkeit: Wider die Legende vom grünen Wachstum. Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 10, 96–104. Schmelzer, M., & Hofferberth, E. (2023). Democratic Planning for Degrowth”, Monthly Review, July, 142–153. https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-075-03-2023-07_10 Schmelzer, M., Eversberg, D., & Schmidt, G. (2018). Entwachstum – Utopie, Konturen und Span- nungen des Degrowth-Spektrums. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 31(4), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2018-0076 Eversberg, D. & Schmelzer, M. (2018). Revolution predigen, Karottensaft trinken? Zum Zusam- menhang von Strömungen, Lebensstilen und Aktivismus im Degrowth-Spektrum. Forschungs- journal Soziale Bewegungen, 31(4), 26–36. https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2018-0079 Schmelzer, M. (2018). Degrowth & Postwachstum. PERIPHERIE, 150/151(38), 336–339. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v38i2.14 Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2016). Über die Selbstproblematisierung zur Kapitalismuskritik. Vier Thesen zur entstehenden Degrowth-Bewegung. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 2016/1, 9–17. https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2016-0103 Schmelzer, M. (2014). Organisierter Kapitalismus und US-Hegemonie: Das Währungssystem von Bretton Woods. Zeitgeschichte Online, June 2014. BOOK CHAPTERS Schmelzer, M. (2025). From Downscaling to Global Justice: Towards a Convergence of Climate Repa- rations and Degrowth. In N.S. Sylla and K. Koddenbrock (Eds.), Delinking and Global Reparations: Alternative Perspectives on the Socio-Ecological Crisis (pp. 85–96). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839476659. Schmelzer, M., & Muraca, B. (2025). Postwachstum: German roots and currents of degrowth. In A. Nelson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (pp. 81–93). London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032650159 Hofferberth, E., Durand, C., & Schmelzer, M. (2025). Planned Degrowth: Macroeconomic Coordination for Sustainable Degrowth. In J. Groos and C. Sorg (Eds.), Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond (pp. 247–64). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529235142.ch013 Schmelzer, M. (2024). Bausteine für eine sozial-ökologische Wirtschaftswende. In J.L. Lozán et al. (Eds.), Warnsignal Klima: Herausforderung Wetterextreme: Ursachen, Auswirkungen & Hand- lungsoptionen (pp. 373–377). Hamburg: Wissenschaftl. Auswertung. Kapfinger, M., Häußermann, D., Parekh, P., & Schmelzer, M. (2024). Geschichte: Eine Bewegung, viele Generationen. In M. Grebenjak (ed.) Kipppunkte: Strategien im Ökosystem der Klima- bewegung (pp. 59–79). Münster: Unrast Verlag. Schmelzer, M. (2024). ‘Without Growth, Everything is Nothing’: On the Origins of Growthism. In L. Eastwood and K. Heron (Eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth (pp. 26–40). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778359. Eversberg, D., Holz, J., & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Bioeconomy: a solution to the challenges of a post- fossil future?. In F. Obeng-Odoom (Eds.), Handbook on Alternative Global Development (pp. 334– 351). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109959.00030 Schmelzer, M. (2023). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In M. Clarke & X. Zhao (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Development (pp. 450–454). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372122.ch94 https://doi.org/10.14512/OEW390126 https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-075-03-2023-07_10 https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2018-0076 https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2018-0079 https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v38i2.14 https://doi.org/10.1515/fjsb-2016-0103 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839476659 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032650159 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529235142.ch013 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778359 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109959.00030 https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372122.ch94 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 11 Leimgruber, M., & Schmelzer, M. (2023). The historical transformations of the OECD. In F. De Francesco and C.M. Radaelli (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to the OECD (pp. 9–22). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886872.00008 Vetter, A., & Schmelzer, M. (2022). Degrowth. In D. Gottschlich et al. (Eds.), Handbuch Politische Ökologie: Theorien, Konflikte, Begriffe, Methoden (pp. 331–340). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839456279. Burkhart, C., Nowshin T., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2022). Who shut shit down? What degrowth can learn from other social-ecological movements. In N. Barlow et al. (Eds.), Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation (pp. 129–143). S.l.: Mayflybooks/Ephemera. Vetter, A., & Schmelzer, M. (2021). The emancipatory project of degrowth. In B. Lange et al. (Eds.), Post-Growth Geographies - Spatial Relations of Diverse and Alternative Economies (pp. 99–106). Bielefeld: Transcript. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457337-007 Schmelzer, M., & Vetter, A. (2020). ‘All you talk about are fairy tales of eternal economic growth’. Degrowth als konkrete Utopie für eine klimagerechte Zukunft. In B. Görgen and B. Wendt (Eds.), Sozial-ökologische Utopien: Diesseits oder jenseits von Wachstum und Kapitalismus? (pp. 131-48). München: Oekom. Lange, S., Schmelzer, M., & Sharp, H. (2020). Raus aus dem Elfenbeinturm! Mit der ‘Third Missi- on‘ zur Wachstumsunabhängigkeit. In L. Hochmann (ed.) Verantwortung übernehmen für eine bessere Welt (pp. 207–18). Hamburg: Murmann. Schmelzer, M. (2020). Price premiums and new opportunities benefit fair trade producers and work- ers. In A. Agrios (ed.) Fair Trade (pp. 33–42). New York: Greenhaven Publishing LLC. Schmelzer, M., & Vetter, A. (2020). Stadt für alle jenseits des Wachstums Was kann die Stadtfor- schung aus der Degrowthdebatte lernen?. In A. Brokow-Loga and F. Eckardt (Eds.), Post- wachstumsstadt: Konturen einer solidarischen Stadtpolitik (pp. 44–57). München: Oekom. Schmelzer, M. (2020). What Comes After Bretton Woods? Neoliberals Debate and Fight for a Future Monetary Order. In D. Plehwe, Q. Slobodian, & P. Mirowski (Eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (pp. 197–218). Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books. Schmelzer, M. (2019). Zur Genese des Wachstumsparadigmas. In M. Christ, B. Sommer, & K. Stumpf (Eds.), Transformationsgesellschaften: Zum Wandel gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse (pp. 111- 30). Weimar: Metropolis. Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2019). Degrowth und Männlichkeiten – Zur Geschlechtlichkeit des relationalen Postwachstumssubjekts. In A. Heilmann & S. Scholz (Eds.), Caring Masculinities? Auf der Suche nach Transformationswegen in eine demokratische Postwachstumsgesellschaft (pp. 173–184). München: Oekom. Schmelzer, M. (2017). The growth paradigm: History, hegemony, and the contested making of eco- nomic growthmanship. In J.L. Caradonna (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainabi- lity (pp. 164-86). London and New York: Routledge. Leimgruber, M., & Schmelzer, M. (2017). From the Marshall Plan to Global Governance: Historical Transformations of the OEEC/OECD, 1948 to Present. In M. Leimgruber & M. Schmelzer (Eds.), The OECD and the International Political Economy since 1948 (pp. 23–61). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Leimgruber, M., & Schmelzer, M. (2017). Introduction: Writing Histories of the OECD. In M. Leim- gruber and M. Schmelzer (Eds.), The OECD and the International Political Economy since 1948 (pp. 1–22). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Eversberg, D., Liebig, S., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2017). Public Sociology in der Bewegungs- forschung. Zum Verhältnis von Soziologie, Gesellschaftskritik und sozialen Bewegungen. In B. Aulenbacher et al. (Eds.), Öffentliche Soziologie: Wissenschaft im Dialog mit der Gesellschaft (pp. 176–188). Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886872.00008 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839456279 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839457337-007 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 12 Borowy, I., & Schmelzer, M. (2017). Introduction: The end of economic growth in long-term perspective. In I. Borowy & M. Schmelzer (Eds.), History of the Future of Economic Growth. Historical roots of current debates on sustainable degrowth (pp. 1–26). London and New York: Routledge. Muraca, B., & Schmelzer, M. (2017). Sustainable degrowth: Historical roots of the search for alter- natives to growth in three regions. In I. Borowy & M. Schmelzer (Eds.), History of the Future of Economic Growth. Historical roots of current debates on sustainable degrowth (pp. 174–197). London and New York: Routledge. Burkhart, C., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2017). Ohne Bewegungen keine Transformation: Das Mosaik der Alternativen als Kompass für Postwachstumspolitiken. In F. Adler & U. Schachtschneider (Eds.), Postwachstumspolitiken: Wege zur wachstumsunabhängigen Gesellschaft (pp. 77–88). München: Oekom. Burkhart, C., Eversberg, D., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2017). Degrowth: In Bewegung, um Alterna- tiven zu stärken und Wachstum, Wettbewerb und Profit zu überwinden. In Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie & DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Eds.), Degrowth in Bewegung(en): 32 alternative Wege zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation (pp. 108-117). München: Oekom. Burkhart, C., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2017). Einleitung: Degrowth in Bewegung(en) sucht nach Alternativen und Bündnissen. In Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie & DFG-Kolleg Post- wachstumsgesellschaften (Eds.), Degrowth in Bewegung(en): 32 alternative Wege zur sozial- ökologischen Transformation (pp. 12-19). München: Oekom. Burkhart, C., Schmelzer, M., & Treu, N. (2017). Degrowth als Teil des Mosaiks der Alternativen für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation. In Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie & DFG-Kolleg Post- wachstumsgesellschaften (Eds.), Degrowth in Bewegung(en): 32 alternative Wege zur sozial- ökologischen Transformation (pp. 12-19). München: Oekom. Schmelzer, M. (2016). Selbstveränderung, Kapitalismuskritik, Organisierung: Transformationspoten- tiale der Degrowth-Bewegung. In AK Postwachstum (ed.) Wachstum - Krise und Kritik: Die Gren- zen der kapitalistisch-industriellen Lebensweise (pp. 179–200). Frankfurt a.M: Campus Verlag. Schmelzer, M. (2016). Die Vermessung ,der Wirtschaft‘: Konstruktionen und Kontroversen in der internationalen Standardisierung der volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung, 1940er- und 50er- Jahre. In J. Maeße, H. Pahl, & J. Sparsam (Eds.), Die Innenwelt der Ökonomie: Wissen, Macht und Performativität in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft (pp. 287–310). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Schmelzer, M. (2015). Gutes Leben statt Wachstum: Degrowth, Klimagerechtigkeit, Subsistenz – eine Einführung in die Begriffe und Ansätze der Postwachstumsbewegung. In Le Monde diplomatique & DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften (Eds.), Atlas der Globalisierung: Weniger wird mehr (pp. 116–121). Berlin: Le Monde diplomatique. Schmelzer, M. (2014). A club of the rich to help the poor? The OECD, ‘development’, and the hege- mony of donor countries. In M. Frey, S. Kunkel, & C. Unger (Eds.), International Organizations and Development, 1945 to 1990 (pp. 171–195). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Schmelzer, M. (2013). The crisis before the crisis: the ‘problems of modern society’ and the OECD, 1968–74. In A. Nützenadel & C. Torp (Eds.), Economic crises and global politics in the 20th century (pp. 151–172). London and New York: Routledge. Passadakis, A., & Schmelzer, M. (2011). Kapital in der Klemme: Investitionskontrolle und Finanz- marktregulierung in einer Postwachstumsökonomie. In W. Rätz et al. (Eds.), Ausgewachsen! Ökologische Gerechtigkeit, soziale Rechte, gutes Leben (pp. 141–51). Hamburg: VSA-Verlag. STUDIES, RESEARCH REPORTS, DICTIONARY ENTRIES Dablander, F. et al. (2025). Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action, SocArXiv, https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ye8bq_v1. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ye8bq_v1. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 13 Petersen, D., Böcker, M., Lage, J, Söhrnsen, M., Wiese, F., Oei, P.-Y., Schmelzer, M., & Gräbner- Radkowitsch (2025). Erneuerbare Landschaften –Impulse für eine energiewendebezogene Trans- formation in Schleswig-Holstein. Transformation Working Paper Series No. 1, Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design & Research, Europa-Universität Flensburg. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/nec/2025.1. Gräbner-Radkowitsch, C., & Schmelzer, M. (2025). Was ist Wachstum? Eine plural-ökonomische Annäherung. Transformation Working Paper Series No. 2, Norbert Elias Center for Transforma- tion Design & Research, Europa-Universität Flensburg, https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/nec/2025.2. Mfochivé, O.F., & Schmelzer, M. (2024). Climate debt and reparations. Leipzig: Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie. Mfochivé, O.F., & Schmelzer, M. (2024). Klimaschulden & Reparationen. Leipzig: Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie. Janischewski, A. et al. (2024). It depends: Varieties of defining growth dependence, arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.12109 Eversberg, D., Fritz, M., Holz, J., Koch, P., Pungas, L., Schmelzer, M. (2021). Mentalities Matter: Sozial-ökologische Mentalitäten und ihre Bedeutung in post-fossilen Transformationen. Working Paper, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Soziologie, BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe „Men- talitäten im Fluss”, Jena. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49142 Eversberg, D., Fritz, M., Faber, L., & Schmelzer M. (2024). Der neue sozial-ökologische Klassen- konflikt: Mentalitäts- und Interessengegensätze im Streit um Transformation. Research Report, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Soziologie, BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe „Mentalitäten im Fluss”, Jena. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.59592 Eversberg, D., Fritz, M., Faber, L., & Schmelzer M. (2024). The new socio-ecological class conflict: Conflicting mentalities and interests in the dispute over transformation. Research Report, Fried- rich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Soziologie, BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe „Mentalitäten im Fluss”, Jena. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.62699 Schmelzer, M. (2023). Growth Paradigm. In B.M. Haddad & B.D. Solomon (Eds.) Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Pub, pp. 259– 260. Durand, C., Hofferberth, E., & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits,” Political Economy Working Papers 1/2023, University of Geneva, https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429 Thiele. L, Krohn, R., & Schmelzer, M. (2022). Mit grüner Marktwirtschaft das Klima retten? Klima- gerechtigkeits-Check der Ampel-Regierung. Leipzig: Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie. Schmelzer, M. (2022). Ende des Wachstums? Vorschläge für eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft”, Politik & Kultur 4/2. Schmelzer, M. (2021). Germany: a declining ecological footprint”, Happy Planet Index, http://happyplanetindex.org/germany Büttner, M., & Schmelzer, M. (2021). Fossile Mentalitäten. Zur Geschichte der fossilen Durchdringung moderner Vorstellungswelten, Working Paper, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Soziologie, BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe „Mentalitäten im Fluss”, Jena. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49021 Eversberg, D., Fritz, M., Holz, J., Koch, P., Pungas, L., & Schmelzer, M. (2021). Mentalities Matter: Sozial-ökologische Mentalitäten und ihre Bedeutung in post-fossilen Transformationen. Working Paper, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institut für Soziologie, BMBF-Nachwuchsgruppe „Men- talitäten im Fluss”, Jena. https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49142 https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/nec/2025.1 https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/nec/2025.2 https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.12109 https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49142 https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.59592 https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.62699 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429 http://happyplanetindex.org/germany https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49021 https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.49142 CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 14 Kuhnhenn, K., Schmelzer, M., Thiele, L. (2021). Ist Klimagerechtigkeit wählbar? Eine Wahlprogramm Analyse, Leipzig: Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie, http://konzeptwerk-neue- oekonomie.org/materialien/publikationen. Haßler, A. et al. (2019). Degrowth of Aviation. Reducing Air Travel in a Just Way. Vienna: Stay Grounded. https://stay-grounded.org/report-degrowth-of-aviation. Translations into German and Spanish. Frauenlob, M., Kuhnhenn, K., Laumanns, C., Schmelzer, M., Treu, N., & Vetter, A. (2017). Kein Wachstum ist auch (k)eine Lösung. Mythen und Behauptungen über Wirtschaftswachstum und Degrowth. Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/14854/kein- wachstum-ist-auch-keine-loesung Eversberg, D., & Schmelzer, M. (2015). Degrowth: Kapitalismuskritik muss praktisch werden! Grundkonsens und Differenzen einer entstehenden Bewegung. Ergebnisbericht zur Befragung von Teilnehmenden der 4. Internationalen Degrowth-Konferenz 2014. Jena: Kolleg Postwachstums- gesellschaften. Schmelzer, M. (2013). Thorkil Kristensen,” Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of Interna- tional Organizations [Preprint]. www.ru.nl/fm/iobio. Pütter, F. et al. (2012). White Paper of the Winter School on Limits to Growth Revisited. Visselhövede, Hannover. Passadakis, A., & Schmelzer, M. (2010). Postwachstum. 12 Fluchtlinien für eine solidarische Öko- nomie jenseits des Wachstums. Published at postwachstum.net, attac.de, Magazin Cultura21 and other magazines. Translations into English, French, Japanese and Finnish. Schmelzer, M. (2009). Alternatives to the Casino? A synopsis of intergovernmental, private sector and civil society proposals to reform the international financial system. Berlin: Weed. Schmelzer, M. (2009). Towards a New Bretton Woods? A critical analysis of current debates on build- ing a new financial architecture. Berlin: Weed. Schmelzer, M. (2007). In or Against the Market? Is Fair Trade a neoliberal solution to market failures or a practical challenge to neoliberal trade and the free market regime in general? Study written for Prof. Dr. Peter Evans an der University of California, Berkeley, published online in various instances. Translations into German and Spanish. http://konzeptwerk-neue-oekonomie.org/materialien/publikationen http://konzeptwerk-neue-oekonomie.org/materialien/publikationen https://stay-grounded.org/report-degrowth-of-aviation https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/14854/kein-wachstum-ist-auch-keine-loesung https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/14854/kein-wachstum-ist-auch-keine-loesung https://doi.org/www.ru.nl/fm/iobio https://www.jenseits-des-wachstums.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Kampagnen/jenseits-des-wachstums/Solidarisches_Postwachstum_Fluchtlinien.pdf https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexis-passadakis-and-matthias-schmelzer-12-lines-of-flight-for-just-degrowth CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 15 PRESS ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS Irregular publication of articles and interviews, among others in: Al Jazeera Agora42 Alles Geschichte - Der History-Podcast ARD analyse & kritik ARD Arranca Bayern2 Bayrischer Rundfunk Bildpunkt – Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandfunk Kultur Die Zeit Dissens Podcast EU Observer Ecological Economics Evangelische Aspekte Flensburger Tageblatt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurter Rundschau Freitag Geschichte der Gegenwart H-Soz-Kult Jacobin Literary Hub London Review of Books Lunapark21 Monthly Review Neues Deutschland New Statesman OECD Insights Open Democracy OXI Parole.cc Politik & Kultur Prager Frühling Progress in Political Economy (PPE) PublikForum Rhein-Neckar Zeitung RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland RND Resilience.org Surplus Standard Transforming Economies taz – tageszeitung Télérama The Ecologist The Philosopher This Is Hell Uneven Earth Upstream Podcast Was tun? Podcast World Politics Review WOZ Die Wochenzeitung ZDF CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 16 LECTURES, KEYNOTES, PANELS (SELECTION) * Invited academic lecture or keynote 2025 Ecopolitics in an Age of Reaction: Power, Climate, and the Politics of Life. Panel at the RIFS Conferne- ce Tough Conversations in Tough Times, 3-5 December, Berlin. From Mont Pélérin to Silicon Valley: The Rise and Reign of Anti-Scientific Doomsday Ideologies. Panel at the RIFS Confernece Tough Conversations in Tough Times, 3-5 December, Berlin. Baustelle Zukunft: Klima, Arbeit und Allianzen im Bausektor. Organization of a workshop (with Nils Urbanus) at the international conference Labour Environmentalism: Crisis, Perspectives and Strate- gies, RLS, Berlin, 1-2 December 2025. * What is the Responsibility of Scientists? Lecture at the Scientists Responsibility Summit, Humboldt- University Berlin, 11 October 2025. * On Ecological Economics and Tentactular Communities. Opening Panel at the Degrowth Festival, Copenhagen, 20-21 September 2025. Sozial-ökologische Transitionen zwischen Konflikt und Kohäsion. Kommentar in Ad-Hoc Gruppe des DGS-Kongress, 22-26 September 2025. Contested strategies for societal transformation and the new social-ecological class conflict. Lecture at the international workshop Understanding and Accellerating Climate Action, Lorentz Center, Leiden, 30 June to 4 July 2025. Wirtschaft anders denken – Verantwortungseigentum, Genossenschaften und Degrowth als wirtschaftliche Zukunftsmodelle. Panel auf dem Waterkant Festival, Kiel, 19-20 June 2025. * Ist es leichter, sich das Ende der Welt vorzustellen, als das Ende des Wachstums? Von der Trans- formationsforschung über die Wachstumskritik zur Kollapsologie. Ringvorlesung Phänomenta, Flens- burg, 28 April 2025. Wachstum! Ein Versprechen auf dem Prüfstand. Panel with Astrid Hamker, Achim Dercks, Jens Boysen-Hogrefe, Wolfgang Lucht and Christiane Graefe, Ökumentisches Netzwerk Klim- agerechtigkeit, 26 March 2025. * Planung von Rückbau, Umbau, Aufbau? Plädoyer für sozial-ökologische demokratische Planung jenseits des Wachstums. Lecture at Workshop Degrowth. Planung. Transformation, University of Hamburg, 17-18 March 2025. Ecological collapse as de-civilization? Reflections on Norbert Elias in the polycrisis. Lecture at the confernece A Climate of (De-)Civilization? Shifting Dynamics between Nature and Society, TU Dort- mund, 12-14 March 2025. * By Design or by Disaster? Growth, degrowth and planning in the age of ecological collapse. Lecture at The New Institute, Hamburg, 28 February 2025. 2024 * Sozial-ökologische Transformationskonflikte und die Bedeutung von Wirtschaftswachstum. Lecture at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 16 December 2024. * Social-ecological planning as collective self-limitation. Keynote at POE – Politics Ontologies Ecolo- gies, Seventh Annual Workshop “Democratic planning and labour alliances beyond growth”, Scuola Normale Superiore – Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 28-29 November 2024. * Sozial-ökologische Transformation gestalten. Invited lecture in the headquarter of Greenpeace, Hamburg, 15 October 2024. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 17 Wachstum. Workshop ‚Zeitbegriffe und die Temporalstruktur der Moderne‘, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, 20 September 2024. * Planning in the climate emergency: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits. In- vited keynote at the Green Academy, Vis, Croatia, 27 July 2024. * How Do We Think about Population in the Anthropocene? Invited talk at a workshop at the Univer- sity of Cambridge, UK, 2-4 July 2024. Panel: Postwachstum – Utopie oder Transformationspfad? Future Lounge #33, Initiative D2030, 5 June 2024. Wie können wir Wohlstand abseits von Konsum neu begreifen? Lecture, BNE-Circle, 27 May 2024. * The semantics of growth: Progress, nature, development. Invited lecture at the University of Bolo- gna, 15 May 2024. * Planning for the Social Ecological Transformation. Keynote, discussed by a roundtable, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 22 May 2024. * How Do We Think about Population in the Anthropocene? Workshop at University of Cambridge, UK, 2-4 July 2024 * Talk at the Annual Debate of the Freedom of Mobility Forum, organized by Stellantis (leading global automaker), 3 April 2024. 2023 * From Limits to Growth to Degrowth and Beyond: Critical historical observations on social- ecological transformation. Invited talk at the DISPUTE conference Less is More: Imagining a good life beyond growth, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 9 November 2023. Bruch und Wandel, Übergang und Exodus: Aktivistische Vorstellungen von Transformation im Degrowth-Spektrum. Paper at the Tagung Transformationssoziologie, RWTH Aachen, 30 November (with Dennis Eversberg). * Contesting the growthocene: From capitalist realism to ecological reduction. Keynote at the open- ing plenary of the Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance, Radboud University, Nether- lands, 24 October 2023. * Degrowth – a critical introduction. Invited talk at Lund University, 6 September 2023. * Degrowing concrete - on the history and future of the world’s most used and most destructive material. Invited talk at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), 5 September 2023. * Sozial-ökologische Transformation, Alternativen zu Wachstum und Strategien des Wandels. Invited lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research in Bozen, 9 August 2023. * Social-ecological transformation beyond growth. Keynote at the conference Growing Pains: Contemporary Culture and the Crises of Growth, University College Dublin, 23 June 2023. * Sozial-ökologische Transformation, Wachstumskritik, und Postwachstum: Aktuelle Forschungen und Kontroversen. Colloquium at University of Hamburg, 19 June 2023. * CASH frisst Klima auf: Wachstum, Kapitalismus, Degrowth. Invited lecture at re:publica, Berlin, 5 June 2023. * Degrowth und Klimareparationen: Zur Notwendigkeit dekolonialer Perspektiven auf sozial- ökologische Transformation. Invited IPW-Lecture, University of Vienna, 11 May 2023. Kämpfe um künstlichen Stein: Einblicke in eine historische Studie zum Zeitalter des Betons mit Fokus auf Steinbruchkonflikte und Betonwerbung. Lecture in the colloquium of the Center for Contempo- rary History Potsdam (ZZF), 10 May 2023. * Degrowth 101: A critical introduction to green growth and transformation. Opening lecture at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, 30 April 2023. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 18 Suffizienz und Wirtschaft: zwei unvereinbare Ziele? Lecture at the annual meeting of the Ökonome- nisches Netzwerk Klimagerechtigkeit, Aachen, 24 April 2023. * Wie schreibt sich eine Einführung zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation? Invited lecture at the Geschichtskontor, University of Zurich, 18 April 2023. * From downscaling to global justice: On the need of linking climate reparations and degrowth. Lecture, Nyt Europa, Copenhagen, 12 April 2023. * Capitalism: Concept, theories, alternatives. Invited lecture for Oxfam, 4 April 2023. Welche Mentalitäten sind mit der zunehmenden Nutzung von Beton als fossilem Rohstoff verbun- den? Einblicke aus einer historischen Fallstudie. Lecture at the sociological colloqium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 9 February 2023. Mentalities in the bioeconomy as a social-ecological transformation: Historical and sociological perspectives. Paper presentation at the international conference Bioeconomy Policies, Actors, and Transformations: Achievements, Challenges, and Recommendations, Humboldt University Berlin, 22- 23 February 2023 (with Martin Fritz). 2022 * Das Betonzeitalter: Zum Aufstieg des am meisten genutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture at the research colloqium Geschichtswissenschaft in der Diskussion, University of Innsbruck, 12 December 2022. * The Future is Degrowth: Building blocs for systemic economic transformation. Lecture at the conference of IÖW and VÖW Ausgewachsen – Wirtschaften als gäbe es ein Morgen, 23 November 2022. * From downscaling to global justice: On the need of linking climate reparations and degrowth. Invit- ed lecture at the international conference The quest for economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa: Facing the socio-ecological crisis: Delinking and the question of Global Reparations, 25-28 October at the Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal. Suffizienz – Konzept, Politiken, Grenzen. Invited input at expert meeting of the German Sachverstän- digenrat für Umweltfragen (SRU), Berlin, 30 September 2023. * Planetary Emergency: Wachstum, Wachstumskritik, Alternativen. Invited lecture at the Conference of Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, 17 September 2023. * Das Zeitalter des Betons: Eine Geschichte des meistgenutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture, organized by the Norbert Elias Center, University of Flensburg, 13 September 2022. * Überlegungen zu den psychologischen Herausforderungen einer reduktiven Moderne. Keynote lecture at annual meeting of Psychologists4Future, 3 September 2023. Grenzen des Wachstums ‚nach dem Boom‘: Wirtschaftswachstum, Wachstumskritik und (Post- )Wachstumsgesellschaft seit den 1970er Jahren. Organisation of panel and comment at Schweizer Geschichtstage, Geneve, 1 July 2022. * The Future is Degrowth. From the hegemony of growth towards a political economy of just futures within limits. Invited lecture at the International Summer School of Political Ecology, University of Ljubljana, 28 June 2022. Transforming the world through concrete: The rise of fossil materials and fossil mentalities. Lecture at the workshop Mental Infrastructures of Modern Fossil and Bio-based Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 19 May 2022. Confronting the Obstacles to Climate Security. Panel at Red May Seattle with Kate Aronoff and David Schwartzman, 18 May 2022. * Vom Luddismus zu den ‘Limits to Growth’: Zu einer Geschichte der Wachstumskritik. Invited lecture at the University of Bern, 23 May 2023. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 19 The Cement Age. Zu einer Geschichte des meistgenutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture at BTU Cottbus, 16 May 2022. * Zementierte Zukünfte aufbrechen. Invited lecture at the Greenwashing Concrete an der University of Applied Art Vienna, 2 April 2022. How do we win when the world is on fire? Input at panel at Aktionsklimakonferenz AKKON 2022, 27 February 2022. * Wirtschaften zwischen Green Growth und Degrowth. Invited lecture at Akademie Nordkirche, Hamburg, 2 February 2022. Postwachstumsgesellschaften im Anthropozän. Lecture at the Hochschule Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR) Berlin, 18 January 2022. * Entfaltung des fossilen Kapitalismus in Europa. Invited lecture at the Schaubühne Berlin in the context of the festival ReEdoCation, 8 January 2022. 2021 * The making of the growth paradigm – and its future after Covid-19. Invited lecture at the confer- ence How Future-Fit is our Economics Growth Model? University of Bozen-Bozano, 4 December 2021. Wirtschaft der Zukunft: Green Growth, Wachstumskritik und Degrowth in Zeiten der Klimakrise. Lecture at the Sustainability Week of the University of Rheinland-Pfalz, 4 December 2021. Utopie des Sozialismus. Comment on the book Klaus Dörre at colloquium Die nächste Gesellschaft – Soziologische Analysen und Prognosen, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2 December 2021. Cementing capitalist modernity. Zu einer Geschichte des meistgenutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture in the sociological colloquium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 11 November 2021. Do we have to stop growth to save the planet? Panel discussion with Frank van der Lerven and Dalia Gebrial, Goethe Institute London, 4 November 2021. * Cementing capitalist modernity. Concrete as the dominant material within the metabolism of modern society – causes and consequences. Invited lecture at Manchester University, 26 October 2021. Ist Klimagerechtigkeit wählbar? Eine Wahlprogramm Analyse. Input at Konferenz der Visionen - Gerechtigkeit jetzt!, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, 26 October 2021. Degrowth – Origins of the concept, theoretical background, objectives. Keynote at workshop Between Green Economy and Post-Growth: The role of economic growth in transformation towards a sustainable society, GIZ – Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, 6 September 2021. * Die Postwachstumsdiskussion: Einführung und Überblick. Invited lecture in series Rechts- philosophie und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit at the legal faculty of the University of Leipzig, 15 June 2021. * Degrowth – Economic Principles and Sustainability. Invited lecture at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 10 May 2021. * Nicht mehr – Nicht weniger – Anders. Warum brauchen wir eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft? Invited lecture in series Wirtschaft im Umbruch. Plurale Perspektiven at the University Erfurt, 19 May 2021. Political challenges around implementing climate change policy. Panel discussion at the Climate & Economics Workshop of the Institut für Sozioökonomie, Universität Duisburg Essen, 22 April 2021. From Luddites to Malthus: Towards a history of growth critiques. Paper presentation at the Environmental History Week der American Society for Environmental History, 21 April 2021. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 20 Pathways to a just future: Degrowth and other alternatives. Input at panel with Carola Rackete, Tonny Nowshin and Ashish Kothari, Just Recovery Gathering, 350.org, 10 April 2021. The Critique of Growth in Historical Context. Paper presentation at the international workshop The Ecology of Economic Thought, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, 3 February 2021. 2020 * Wachstum über alles? Zur Geschichte des Wachstumsparadigmas, Invited lecture at the Technical University of Berlin, 30 November 2020. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Wie könnte die Wirtschaft der Zukunft aussehen? Input at panel at Public Climate School, 27 November 2020. The Great Degrowth Debate: New Roots and Routes for a better post-2020 world. Panel discussion with Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Nina Treu and Vincent Liegey, 16 November 2020. On the possible alliance between degrowth and ecological economics. Panel with Julia Steinberger, Bina Agarwal, Emanuele Campiglio, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Ksenija Hanacek, at Economy and livelihoods after Covid-19, a global on-line symposium of the international degrowth network and the International Society for Ecological Economics, 1 September 2020. Anders Wirtschaften! Das Netzwerk Ökonomischer Wandel. Panel discussion at the conference Zukunft für alle, Leipzig, 27 August 2020. * Inclusive Organizing in the Anthropocene: From Sustainability to Circularity to Degrowth. Invited lecture at the 36th EGOS Colloquium (European Group for Organizational Studies), Hamburg, 3 July 2020. Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum, geht das? Diskussion zu Degrowth und Postwachstum. Lecture and discussion at the festival re:publica, Berlin, 23 September 2020. Anders Wirtschaften Jetzt. Panel organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Netzwerk Ökonomische Wandel, 11 June 2020. Degrowth in Movement(s). Panel discussion at the conference SCORAI – Sustainable Consumption and Social Justice in an Urbanizing World, Boston University, 10 June 2020. The making of a transformative book. Input at book launch on Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation, at the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020 – Strategies for Social- Ecological Transformation, University of Vienna, 29 May 2020. Advancing a Degrowth Agenda in the Corona Crisis. Panel at the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020 – Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation, University of Vienna, 30 May 2020. Degrowth – Visionen für eine bessere Welt. Lecture at Allerweltshaus Köln, 28 May 2020. 2019 Postfossile Wirtschaft und Wachstum. Lecture at the University of Applied Arts Berlin, 4 December 2019. * Introduction to degrowth/postgrowth thinking from a South-North perspective. Invited lecture at the Symposio International: Pensamiento Ambietal y Alternativas al Desarollo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Bogotá, 22 November 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Zürich, with Marcel Hänggi, 3 October 2019. Kritische Männlichkeit und Degrowth. Paper presentation at the Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 27 September 2019. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 21 Mehr Utopie wagen: Zukunftsvisionen einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft. Paper presentation at the Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 26 September 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Jena, with Stephan Lessen- ich and Barbara Muraca, 25 September 2019. Postfossile Wirtschaft – postfossile Gesellschaft? Konturen des Sozialen nach Kohle und Öl. Panel at the Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 25 September 2019. Degrowth for Future? Wachstumskritik in Zeiten von Klimanotstand und Fridays for Future. Panel discussion at Café Décroissance with Gregor Hagedorn and Emma Fuchs at Prinzessinnengärten, 19 September 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Flensburg, with Jule Govrin and Thore Prien, 12 September 2019. Imperiale Lebensweise und Degrowth. Workshop with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Heidelberg (with Markus Wissen), 29 August 2019. Frequent Flyer Levy. Presentation at the Degrowth of Aviation conference in Barcelona, 13 July 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Bayreuth, with David Stadelmann, Berlin, 19 June 2019. Ökologie als soziale Frage? Lebensweisen, Klimagerechtigkeit und Fridays for Future, input at conference Die Politik der Vielen, Berlin, Institut Solidarische Moderne, 15 June 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, Plural Economics Jena, with Elisabeth von Thadden and David J. Petersen, Berlin, 12 June 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Leipzig, with Felix Ekardt and Nina Treu, Berlin, 27 May 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book launch, Humboldt-University Berlin, with Olga A. Statnaia, and Lisa Weinhold, Berlin, 23 May 2019. * Degrowth und Fluchtlinien einer Postwachstumstadt. Keynote at the conference Post- wachstumsstadt, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 10 May 2019. How to Sustain Social Justice in the Current Context of Limited Growth? Panel at the European Business Summit (EBS) in Brussels, 6 May 2019. 2011-2018 (SELECTION) * 2018. The Hegemony of Growth. Invited lecture for the Humanities and Social Sciences Association, University of California in Berkeley. * 2018. Degrowth and the Global South. Invited lecture at Brandeis University, Waltham. 2018. Postwachstum und Post-Kapitalismus? Über die Systemfrage. Keynote at the Vereinigung Öko- logische Ökonomik (VÖÖ) Vielfalt der Postwachstumsperspektiven in Stuttgart. * 2018. Opening keynote to introduce degrowth a the Degrowth Summer School (with Tonny Nowshin), Leipzig. * 2017. Author meets Critics: Debate on The Hegemony of Growth. Lecture and discussion at the University of Copenhagen, CEMES (with Karen Gram-Skjoldager and Carl-Johan Dalgaard). * 2017. Roundtable on The Hegemony of Growth. Panel at the 29th Annual EAEPE Conference, Corvinus University Budapest (with Matthieu Hughes, Gareth Dale, Jessica Lawrence and Richard Lane). * 2016. Book presentation on The Hegemony of Growth, MaxPo Center at SciencesPo, Paris. CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 22 * 2016. Social-ecological transformation, climate justice and degrowth. Keynote at the 5th Interna- tional Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Corvinus University Budapest. 2016. Zwischen Kapitalismusreform und Postwachstumsökonomie – Wie kann ein zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaftssystem aussehen? Panel with Ulrike Hermann at Lettrétage Berlin. 2016. Book presentation on The Hegemony of Growth at the headquarter of the OECD in Paris, with exhibition and roundtable discussion. 2016. Keynote at the International Conference on Basic Income and Degrowth, Hamburg. 2016. Panel discussion at the Sustainability Week of the Universities of Zurich (with Rudolf Minsch, Lucas Bretschger, and Irmi Seidl). 2016. Panel discussion at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Sachsen, Kleines Schauspielhaus Dresden (with Angelika Zahrnt, Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, and MdB Dieter Janecek). 2016. Taming democracy and liberalizing capital. The contested origins of neoliberal monetary poli- tics and its influence. Paper presentation at the conference More Roads from Mont Pèlerin – Neoliberalism Studies, Wissenschaftszentrum (WZB) Berlin. 2016. The history of the OECD as Warden of the West. Paper presentation at the international conference Europe and International Organisations, 1918-1970s, University of Copenhagen. 2015. ‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unravel- ing of the postwar confidence in economic growth. Paper presentation at the World Economic History Conference (WEHC) in Kyoto, Japan. * 2015. Das Wachstumsparadigma: Geschichte und Hegemonie einer wirtschaftspolitischen Idee. Lecture in lecture series on Post-Growth Economies, University Oldenburg. 2015. ‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unravel- ing of the postwar confidence in economic growth. Paper presentation at the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO), University Cergy-Pontoise, Paris. * 2015. Promoting and questioning growth: The OECD and the remaking of the economic growth paradigm in postwar history. Lecture at OECD Seminar New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC), OECD Paris. * 2014. Die Selbstevidenz des Wachstumsparadigmas. Hegemonie, Wirtschaftsexperten und interna- tionale Organisationen. Invited lecture at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. * 2014. The hegemony of growth. The making and remaking of the economic growth paradigm and the OECD. Invited lecture at the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris. 2014. ‘How undergrowthed do you consider your economy?’ Die OECD, ökonomische Experten und wie die Erwartung exponentiellen Wirtschaftswachstums sich durchsetzte. Paper presentation at the German Historikertag in Göttingen. 2014. A ‘watchdog’ watching itself? The historical origins and functioning of the OECD’s Aid Review. Paper presentation at the Fourth European Congress on World and Global History (ENUIGH) an der École Normale Supérieure Paris (with Patricia Hongler). * 2014. More than a rational number cruncher: the OECD, political interests and restricted spaces. Lecture at the University of Basel. 2014. Hegemonie des Wachstums. Die Durchsetzung des ökonomischen Wachstumsparadigmas und die OECD. Lecture at the colloqium of the Institute for Contemporary History, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 23 April 2014. 2013. A pilot fish for global capitalism? The OECD and international economic governance after 1945. Presentation at the Forschungskolloqium Soziologie, University of Luzern, 1 October 2013 (with Matthieu Leimgruber). CV Matthias Schmelzer – 2025 23 2013. Institutionalizing the hegemony of donor countries: the OECD as a key actor in the emerging field of 'development' during the 1960s. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting der Socio- Economic History Society, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2 June 2013. 2013. The ‘development of others’ and the hegemony of donors countries. The historical origins of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee. Paper presentation at the 8th pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw. 2012. A ‚temple of growth‘ in crisis? The production of economic and environmental policy norms within the OECD in the 1970s. Paper presentation at the 9th European Social Science History confer- ence (ESSHC) an der Glasgow University. 2011. Limits to Growth and Basic Needs. The OECD, the debate on 'problems of modern society' and shifting visions of development in the early 1970s. Paper presentation at the international confer- ence Shifting Visions of Development: International Organizations, Non-Governmental Actors, and the Rise of Global Governance, 1945-1990, Jacobs University Bremen, 29-30 September 2011. 2011. Linke Strategien zu Postwachstum. Final panel of the conference Beyond Growth?! with Hans- Jürgen Urban, Angelika Zahrnt, and Barbara Muraca, 22 May 2011. 2011. ‘A temple of growth for industrialized countries’ Die OECD und das Wachstumsparadigma, 1950er bis 1980er Jahre. Paper presentation at the Zeithistorisches Doktorandentreffen, Martin- Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 18 February 2011. RESEARCH INTERESTS Academic Positions Academic formation non-academic positions and activities 2015 to 2023 Laboratory for a New Economy (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V.) Part-time collaborator in various projects on heterodox economic approaches, socio-ecological transformation, utopias, migration, climate justice. Publication of various books and policy papers; organization and conception of workshops, network meetings and large conferences. Among other things, the two-year networking and multimedia project Degrowth in Movement(s), the conference Self-determine... Research projects Awards, Grants and Scholarships Membership Review activities (Selection) organization of conferences, WOrkshops and Sessions publications BOOKS EDITED BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES JOURNAL ARTICLES (PEER REVIEWED) JOURNAL ARTICLES BOOK CHAPTERS STUDIES, RESEARCH REPORTS, DICTIONARY ENTRIES Press articles, interviews and Podcasts Lectures, keynotes, Panels (selection) * Invited academic lecture or keynote 2025 Ecopolitics in an Age of Reaction: Power, Climate, and the Politics of Life. Panel at the RIFS Confernece Tough Conversations in Tough Times, 3-5 December, Berlin. From Mont Pélérin to Silicon Valley: The Rise and Reign of Anti-Scientific Doomsday Ideologies. Panel at the RIFS Confernece Tough Conversations in Tough Times, 3-5 December, Berlin. Baustelle Zukunft: Klima, Arbeit und Allianzen im Bausektor. Organization of a workshop (with Nils Urbanus) at the international conference Labour Environmentalism: Crisis, Perspectives and Strategies, RLS, Berlin, 1-2 December 2025. * What is the Responsibility of Scientists? Lecture at the Scientists Responsibility Summit, Humboldt-University Berlin, 11 October 2025. * On Ecological Economics and Tentactular Communities. Opening Panel at the Degrowth Festival, Copenhagen, 20-21 September 2025. Sozial-ökologische Transitionen zwischen Konflikt und Kohäsion. Kommentar in Ad-Hoc Gruppe des DGS-Kongress, 22-26 September 2025. Contested strategies for societal transformation and the new social-ecological class conflict. Lecture at the international workshop Understanding and Accellerating Climate Action, Lorentz Center, Leiden, 30 June to 4 July 2025. Wirtschaft anders denken – Verantwortungseigentum, Genossenschaften und Degrowth als wirtschaftliche Zukunftsmodelle. Panel auf dem Waterkant Festival, Kiel, 19-20 June 2025. * Ist es leichter, sich das Ende der Welt vorzustellen, als das Ende des Wachstums? Von der Transformationsforschung über die Wachstumskritik zur Kollapsologie. Ringvorlesung Phänomenta, Flensburg, 28 April 2025. Wachstum! Ein Versprechen auf dem Prüfstand. Panel with Astrid Hamker, Achim Dercks, Jens Boysen-Hogrefe, Wolfgang Lucht and Christiane Graefe, Ökumentisches Netzwerk Klimagerechtigkeit, 26 March 2025. * Planung von Rückbau, Umbau, Aufbau? Plädoyer für sozial-ökologische demokratische Planung jenseits des Wachstums. Lecture at Workshop Degrowth. Planung. Transformation, University of Hamburg, 17-18 March 2025. Ecological collapse as de-civilization? Reflections on Norbert Elias in the polycrisis. Lecture at the confernece A Climate of (De-)Civilization? Shifting Dynamics between Nature and Society, TU Dortmund, 12-14 March 2025. * By Design or by Disaster? Growth, degrowth and planning in the age of ecological collapse. Lecture at The New Institute, Hamburg, 28 February 2025. 2024 * Sozial-ökologische Transformationskonflikte und die Bedeutung von Wirtschaftswachstum. Lecture at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 16 December 2024. * Social-ecological planning as collective self-limitation. Keynote at POE – Politics Ontologies Ecologies, Seventh Annual Workshop “Democratic planning and labour alliances beyond growth”, Scuola Normale Superiore – Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 28-29 ... * Sozial-ökologische Transformation gestalten. Invited lecture in the headquarter of Greenpeace, Hamburg, 15 October 2024. Wachstum. Workshop ‚Zeitbegriffe und die Temporalstruktur der Moderne‘, Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, 20 September 2024. * Planning in the climate emergency: The case for economic democracy within ecological limits. Invited keynote at the Green Academy, Vis, Croatia, 27 July 2024. * How Do We Think about Population in the Anthropocene? Invited talk at a workshop at the University of Cambridge, UK, 2-4 July 2024. Panel: Postwachstum – Utopie oder Transformationspfad? Future Lounge #33, Initiative D2030, 5 June 2024. Wie können wir Wohlstand abseits von Konsum neu begreifen? Lecture, BNE-Circle, 27 May 2024. * The semantics of growth: Progress, nature, development. Invited lecture at the University of Bologna, 15 May 2024. * Planning for the Social Ecological Transformation. Keynote, discussed by a roundtable, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 22 May 2024. * How Do We Think about Population in the Anthropocene? Workshop at University of Cambridge, UK, 2-4 July 2024 * Talk at the Annual Debate of the Freedom of Mobility Forum, organized by Stellantis (leading global automaker), 3 April 2024. 2023 * From Limits to Growth to Degrowth and Beyond: Critical historical observations on social-ecological transformation. Invited talk at the DISPUTE conference Less is More: Imagining a good life beyond growth, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 9 November 2023. Bruch und Wandel, Übergang und Exodus: Aktivistische Vorstellungen von Transformation im Degrowth-Spektrum. Paper at the Tagung Transformationssoziologie, RWTH Aachen, 30 November (with Dennis Eversberg). * Contesting the growthocene: From capitalist realism to ecological reduction. Keynote at the opening plenary of the Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance, Radboud University, Netherlands, 24 October 2023. * Degrowth – a critical introduction. Invited talk at Lund University, 6 September 2023. * Degrowing concrete - on the history and future of the world’s most used and most destructive material. Invited talk at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking (CApE), 5 September 2023. * Sozial-ökologische Transformation, Alternativen zu Wachstum und Strategien des Wandels. Invited lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies, Eurac Research in Bozen, 9 August 2023. * Social-ecological transformation beyond growth. Keynote at the conference Growing Pains: Contemporary Culture and the Crises of Growth, University College Dublin, 23 June 2023. * Sozial-ökologische Transformation, Wachstumskritik, und Postwachstum: Aktuelle Forschungen und Kontroversen. Colloquium at University of Hamburg, 19 June 2023. * CASH frisst Klima auf: Wachstum, Kapitalismus, Degrowth. Invited lecture at re:publica, Berlin, 5 June 2023. * Degrowth und Klimareparationen: Zur Notwendigkeit dekolonialer Perspektiven auf sozial-ökologische Transformation. Invited IPW-Lecture, University of Vienna, 11 May 2023. Kämpfe um künstlichen Stein: Einblicke in eine historische Studie zum Zeitalter des Betons mit Fokus auf Steinbruchkonflikte und Betonwerbung. Lecture in the colloquium of the Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), 10 May 2023. * Degrowth 101: A critical introduction to green growth and transformation. Opening lecture at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, 30 April 2023. Suffizienz und Wirtschaft: zwei unvereinbare Ziele? Lecture at the annual meeting of the Ökonomenisches Netzwerk Klimagerechtigkeit, Aachen, 24 April 2023. * Wie schreibt sich eine Einführung zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation? Invited lecture at the Geschichtskontor, University of Zurich, 18 April 2023. * From downscaling to global justice: On the need of linking climate reparations and degrowth. Lecture, Nyt Europa, Copenhagen, 12 April 2023. * Capitalism: Concept, theories, alternatives. Invited lecture for Oxfam, 4 April 2023. Welche Mentalitäten sind mit der zunehmenden Nutzung von Beton als fossilem Rohstoff verbunden? Einblicke aus einer historischen Fallstudie. Lecture at the sociological colloqium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 9 February 2023. Mentalities in the bioeconomy as a social-ecological transformation: Historical and sociological perspectives. Paper presentation at the international conference Bioeconomy Policies, Actors, and Transformations: Achievements, Challenges, and Recommend... 2022 * Das Betonzeitalter: Zum Aufstieg des am meisten genutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture at the research colloqium Geschichtswissenschaft in der Diskussion, University of Innsbruck, 12 December 2022. * The Future is Degrowth: Building blocs for systemic economic transformation. Lecture at the conference of IÖW and VÖW Ausgewachsen – Wirtschaften als gäbe es ein Morgen, 23 November 2022. * From downscaling to global justice: On the need of linking climate reparations and degrowth. Invited lecture at the international conference The quest for economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa: Facing the socio-ecological crisis:... Suffizienz – Konzept, Politiken, Grenzen. Invited input at expert meeting of the German Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen (SRU), Berlin, 30 September 2023. * Planetary Emergency: Wachstum, Wachstumskritik, Alternativen. Invited lecture at the Conference of Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, 17 September 2023. * Das Zeitalter des Betons: Eine Geschichte des meistgenutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture, organized by the Norbert Elias Center, University of Flensburg, 13 September 2022. * Überlegungen zu den psychologischen Herausforderungen einer reduktiven Moderne. Keynote lecture at annual meeting of Psychologists4Future, 3 September 2023. Grenzen des Wachstums ‚nach dem Boom‘: Wirtschaftswachstum, Wachstumskritik und (Post-)Wachstumsgesellschaft seit den 1970er Jahren. Organisation of panel and comment at Schweizer Geschichtstage, Geneve, 1 July 2022. * The Future is Degrowth. From the hegemony of growth towards a political economy of just futures within limits. Invited lecture at the International Summer School of Political Ecology, University of Ljubljana, 28 June 2022. Transforming the world through concrete: The rise of fossil materials and fossil mentalities. Lecture at the workshop Mental Infrastructures of Modern Fossil and Bio-based Societies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 19 May 2022. Confronting the Obstacles to Climate Security. Panel at Red May Seattle with Kate Aronoff and David Schwartzman, 18 May 2022. * Vom Luddismus zu den ‘Limits to Growth’: Zu einer Geschichte der Wachstumskritik. Invited lecture at the University of Bern, 23 May 2023. The Cement Age. Zu einer Geschichte des meistgenutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture at BTU Cottbus, 16 May 2022. * Zementierte Zukünfte aufbrechen. Invited lecture at the Greenwashing Concrete an der University of Applied Art Vienna, 2 April 2022. How do we win when the world is on fire? Input at panel at Aktionsklimakonferenz AKKON 2022, 27 February 2022. * Wirtschaften zwischen Green Growth und Degrowth. Invited lecture at Akademie Nordkirche, Hamburg, 2 February 2022. Postwachstumsgesellschaften im Anthropozän. Lecture at the Hochschule Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR) Berlin, 18 January 2022. * Entfaltung des fossilen Kapitalismus in Europa. Invited lecture at the Schaubühne Berlin in the context of the festival ReEdoCation, 8 January 2022. 2021 * The making of the growth paradigm – and its future after Covid-19. Invited lecture at the conference How Future-Fit is our Economics Growth Model? University of Bozen-Bozano, 4 December 2021. Wirtschaft der Zukunft: Green Growth, Wachstumskritik und Degrowth in Zeiten der Klimakrise. Lecture at the Sustainability Week of the University of Rheinland-Pfalz, 4 December 2021. Utopie des Sozialismus. Comment on the book Klaus Dörre at colloquium Die nächste Gesellschaft – Soziologische Analysen und Prognosen, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2 December 2021. Cementing capitalist modernity. Zu einer Geschichte des meistgenutzten menschengemachten Materials. Lecture in the sociological colloquium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 11 November 2021. Do we have to stop growth to save the planet? Panel discussion with Frank van der Lerven and Dalia Gebrial, Goethe Institute London, 4 November 2021. * Cementing capitalist modernity. Concrete as the dominant material within the metabolism of modern society – causes and consequences. Invited lecture at Manchester University, 26 October 2021. Ist Klimagerechtigkeit wählbar? Eine Wahlprogramm Analyse. Input at Konferenz der Visionen - Gerechtigkeit jetzt!, Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, 26 October 2021. Degrowth – Origins of the concept, theoretical background, objectives. Keynote at workshop Between Green Economy and Post-Growth: The role of economic growth in transformation towards a sustainable society, GIZ – Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusamm... * Die Postwachstumsdiskussion: Einführung und Überblick. Invited lecture in series Rechtsphilosophie und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit at the legal faculty of the University of Leipzig, 15 June 2021. * Degrowth – Economic Principles and Sustainability. Invited lecture at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 10 May 2021. * Nicht mehr – Nicht weniger – Anders. Warum brauchen wir eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft? Invited lecture in series Wirtschaft im Umbruch. Plurale Perspektiven at the University Erfurt, 19 May 2021. Political challenges around implementing climate change policy. Panel discussion at the Climate & Economics Workshop of the Institut für Sozioökonomie, Universität Duisburg Essen, 22 April 2021. From Luddites to Malthus: Towards a history of growth critiques. Paper presentation at the Environmental History Week der American Society for Environmental History, 21 April 2021. Pathways to a just future: Degrowth and other alternatives. Input at panel with Carola Rackete, Tonny Nowshin and Ashish Kothari, Just Recovery Gathering, 350.org, 10 April 2021. The Critique of Growth in Historical Context. Paper presentation at the international workshop The Ecology of Economic Thought, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, 3 February 2021. 2020 * Wachstum über alles? Zur Geschichte des Wachstumsparadigmas, Invited lecture at the Technical University of Berlin, 30 November 2020. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Wie könnte die Wirtschaft der Zukunft aussehen? Input at panel at Public Climate School, 27 November 2020. The Great Degrowth Debate: New Roots and Routes for a better post-2020 world. Panel discussion with Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Nina Treu and Vincent Liegey, 16 November 2020. On the possible alliance between degrowth and ecological economics. Panel with Julia Steinberger, Bina Agarwal, Emanuele Campiglio, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya and Ksenija Hanacek, at Economy and livelihoods after Covid-19, a global on-line symposium of t... Anders Wirtschaften! Das Netzwerk Ökonomischer Wandel. Panel discussion at the conference Zukunft für alle, Leipzig, 27 August 2020. * Inclusive Organizing in the Anthropocene: From Sustainability to Circularity to Degrowth. Invited lecture at the 36th EGOS Colloquium (European Group for Organizational Studies), Hamburg, 3 July 2020. Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum, geht das? Diskussion zu Degrowth und Postwachstum. Lecture and discussion at the festival re:publica, Berlin, 23 September 2020. Anders Wirtschaften Jetzt. Panel organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Netzwerk Ökonomische Wandel, 11 June 2020. Degrowth in Movement(s). Panel discussion at the conference SCORAI – Sustainable Consumption and Social Justice in an Urbanizing World, Boston University, 10 June 2020. The making of a transformative book. Input at book launch on Degrowth in Movement(s): Exploring pathways for transformation, at the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020 – Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation, University of Vienna, 29 May 2020. Advancing a Degrowth Agenda in the Corona Crisis. Panel at the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020 – Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation, University of Vienna, 30 May 2020. Degrowth – Visionen für eine bessere Welt. Lecture at Allerweltshaus Köln, 28 May 2020. 2019 Postfossile Wirtschaft und Wachstum. Lecture at the University of Applied Arts Berlin, 4 December 2019. * Introduction to degrowth/postgrowth thinking from a South-North perspective. Invited lecture at the Symposio International: Pensamiento Ambietal y Alternativas al Desarollo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Bogotá, 22 November 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Zürich, with Marcel Hänggi, 3 October 2019. Kritische Männlichkeit und Degrowth. Paper presentation at the Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 27 September 2019. Mehr Utopie wagen: Zukunftsvisionen einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft. Paper presentation at the Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 26 September 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Jena, with Stephan Lessenich and Barbara Muraca, 25 September 2019. Postfossile Wirtschaft – postfossile Gesellschaft? Konturen des Sozialen nach Kohle und Öl. Panel at the Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 25 September 2019. Degrowth for Future? Wachstumskritik in Zeiten von Klimanotstand und Fridays for Future. Panel discussion at Café Décroissance with Gregor Hagedorn and Emma Fuchs at Prinzessinnengärten, 19 September 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Flensburg, with Jule Govrin and Thore Prien, 12 September 2019. Imperiale Lebensweise und Degrowth. Workshop with Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Heidelberg (with Markus Wissen), 29 August 2019. Frequent Flyer Levy. Presentation at the Degrowth of Aviation conference in Barcelona, 13 July 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Bayreuth, with David Stadelmann, Berlin, 19 June 2019. Ökologie als soziale Frage? Lebensweisen, Klimagerechtigkeit und Fridays for Future, input at conference Die Politik der Vielen, Berlin, Institut Solidarische Moderne, 15 June 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, Plural Economics Jena, with Elisabeth von Thadden and David J. Petersen, Berlin, 12 June 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book discussion, University of Leipzig, with Felix Ekardt and Nina Treu, Berlin, 27 May 2019. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung. Book launch, Humboldt-University Berlin, with Olga A. Statnaia, and Lisa Weinhold, Berlin, 23 May 2019. * Degrowth und Fluchtlinien einer Postwachstumstadt. Keynote at the conference Postwachstumsstadt, Bauhaus-University Weimar, 10 May 2019. How to Sustain Social Justice in the Current Context of Limited Growth? Panel at the European Business Summit (EBS) in Brussels, 6 May 2019. 2011-2018 (SELECTION) * 2018. The Hegemony of Growth. Invited lecture for the Humanities and Social Sciences Association, University of California in Berkeley. * 2018. Degrowth and the Global South. Invited lecture at Brandeis University, Waltham. 2018. Postwachstum und Post-Kapitalismus? Über die Systemfrage. Keynote at the Vereinigung Ökologische Ökonomik (VÖÖ) Vielfalt der Postwachstumsperspektiven in Stuttgart. * 2018. Opening keynote to introduce degrowth a the Degrowth Summer School (with Tonny Nowshin), Leipzig. * 2017. Author meets Critics: Debate on The Hegemony of Growth. Lecture and discussion at the University of Copenhagen, CEMES (with Karen Gram-Skjoldager and Carl-Johan Dalgaard). * 2017. Roundtable on The Hegemony of Growth. Panel at the 29th Annual EAEPE Conference, Corvinus University Budapest (with Matthieu Hughes, Gareth Dale, Jessica Lawrence and Richard Lane). * 2016. Book presentation on The Hegemony of Growth, MaxPo Center at SciencesPo, Paris. * 2016. Social-ecological transformation, climate justice and degrowth. Keynote at the 5th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Corvinus University Budapest. 2016. Zwischen Kapitalismusreform und Postwachstumsökonomie – Wie kann ein zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaftssystem aussehen? Panel with Ulrike Hermann at Lettrétage Berlin. 2016. Book presentation on The Hegemony of Growth at the headquarter of the OECD in Paris, with exhibition and roundtable discussion. 2016. Keynote at the International Conference on Basic Income and Degrowth, Hamburg. 2016. Panel discussion at the Sustainability Week of the Universities of Zurich (with Rudolf Minsch, Lucas Bretschger, and Irmi Seidl). 2016. Panel discussion at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Sachsen, Kleines Schauspielhaus Dresden (with Angelika Zahrnt, Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt, and MdB Dieter Janecek). 2016. Taming democracy and liberalizing capital. The contested origins of neoliberal monetary politics and its influence. Paper presentation at the conference More Roads from Mont Pèlerin – Neoliberalism Studies, Wissenschaftszentrum (WZB) Berlin. 2016. The history of the OECD as Warden of the West. Paper presentation at the international conference Europe and International Organisations, 1918-1970s, University of Copenhagen. 2015. ‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unraveling of the postwar confidence in economic growth. Paper presentation at the World Economic History Conference (WEHC) in Kyoto, Japan. * 2015. Das Wachstumsparadigma: Geschichte und Hegemonie einer wirtschaftspolitischen Idee. Lecture in lecture series on Post-Growth Economies, University Oldenburg. 2015. ‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unraveling of the postwar confidence in economic growth. Paper presentation at the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO), University Cergy-Pontoise, Paris. * 2015. Promoting and questioning growth: The OECD and the remaking of the economic growth paradigm in postwar history. Lecture at OECD Seminar New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC), OECD Paris. * 2014. Die Selbstevidenz des Wachstumsparadigmas. Hegemonie, Wirtschaftsexperten und internationale Organisationen. Invited lecture at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. * 2014. The hegemony of growth. The making and remaking of the economic growth paradigm and the OECD. Invited lecture at the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris. 2014. ‘How undergrowthed do you consider your economy?’ Die OECD, ökonomische Experten und wie die Erwartung exponentiellen Wirtschaftswachstums sich durchsetzte. Paper presentation at the German Historikertag in Göttingen. 2014. A ‘watchdog’ watching itself? The historical origins and functioning of the OECD’s Aid Review. Paper presentation at the Fourth European Congress on World and Global History (ENUIGH) an der École Normale Supérieure Paris (with Patricia Hongler). * 2014. More than a rational number cruncher: the OECD, political interests and restricted spaces. Lecture at the University of Basel. 2014. Hegemonie des Wachstums. Die Durchsetzung des ökonomischen Wachstumsparadigmas und die OECD. Lecture at the colloqium of the Institute for Contemporary History, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 23 April 2014. 2013. A pilot fish for global capitalism? The OECD and international economic governance after 1945. Presentation at the Forschungskolloqium Soziologie, University of Luzern, 1 October 2013 (with Matthieu Leimgruber). 2013. Institutionalizing the hegemony of donor countries: the OECD as a key actor in the emerging field of 'development' during the 1960s. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting der Socio-Economic History Society, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2 June ... 2013. The ‘development of others’ and the hegemony of donors countries. The historical origins of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee. Paper presentation at the 8th pan-European Conference on International Relations, Warsaw. 2012. A ‚temple of growth‘ in crisis? The production of economic and environmental policy norms within the OECD in the 1970s. Paper presentation at the 9th European Social Science History conference (ESSHC) an der Glasgow University. 2011. Limits to Growth and Basic Needs. The OECD, the debate on 'problems of modern society' and shifting visions of development in the early 1970s. Paper presentation at the international conference Shifting Visions of Development: International Org... 2011. Linke Strategien zu Postwachstum. Final panel of the conference Beyond Growth?! with Hans-Jürgen Urban, Angelika Zahrnt, and Barbara Muraca, 22 May 2011. 2011. ‘A temple of growth for industrialized countries’ Die OECD und das Wachstumsparadigma, 1950er bis 1980er Jahre. Paper presentation at the Zeithistorisches Doktorandentreffen, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 18 February 2011.
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