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| 07.06.2023

Blog: How can we achieve sustainable welfare?

Take almost any social problem in the wealthy part of the world today – poverty, widespread unemployment, uneven distribution of income, inadequate funding for public health, schools, or environmental conservation – and more economic growth is seen as the best and often only solution.

Our society and our economic system, as well as their stability, are based on and depend on growth. If the economy does not grow, there will be a crisis. The more the economy grows, the better. At least, that's what we are told. 

But now many researchers believe that we are in a situation where the stability of the growth economy – that is, the pursuit of constant economic growth – is threatening the ecosystems that sustain life on this planet. The economy and other parts of human society are ultimately entirely dependent on the environment, PhD student Kristoffer Wilén writes in a new blog post.

Read the whole blog post:
How can we achieve sustainable welfare?

The text has also been published in Swedish in the Hanken Magazine:
Hanken Magazine 2023