Friday 4 February 2011

A note on the Schumacher college MA in ecological economics

Schumacher College (in cooperation with the University of Plymouth) is launching a MA in ecological economics. The MA program is called "Economics for Transition - Achieving low carbon, high well-being, resilient economies."

I think it's great the MA is being introduced, but a bit puzzled that the word "growth" only appear once, towards the very end of the website presenting the MA.
What you will learn
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Use sources of knowledge and evidence to powerfully critique the dominant economic growth model
Surely economic growth is risky to describe in critical terms, given how many offer simplistic, not very insightful critique - but hardly mentioning the phenomenon at all is not very promising either.

Schumacher College also offers a MSc in Holistic Science.

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