Development Studies Seminars 2025 | Slow Down or Perish: The Economics of Degrowth
The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in Development Studies of the University of Lisbon
Development Studies Seminars 2025
Topic: Slow Down or Perish: The Economics of Degrowth
Speaker: Dr Timothée Parrique (Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Discussants: Dr Susana Peralta (Nova-SBE), Dr Irina Castro (CES, Universidade de Coimbra), and Dr Alexandre Abreu (CEsA and ISEG)
Date: 23 June 2025 (Monday)
Hour: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Venue: Amphitheatre 24, 2nd Floor – Francesinhas 1 Building, ISEG (Access by Rua das Francesinhas, Lisbon, Portugal)
Free admission, in person event. Lecture in English.
In partnership with:Embassy of France in Portugal, French Institute of Portugal, Nova SBE – Nova School of Business & Economics, and EcoPol – Portuguese Association of Political Economy.
About the speaker
Timothée Parrique is an economist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at HEC Lausanne – The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He works on macro-ecological planning in Switzerland part of the STRIVE research project. He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.
Parrique is the author of “Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance” (September 2022, Seuil), a wide-audience book adaptation of his PhD dissertation which has sold more than 40,000 copies in France and is being translated into eight languages. He frequently writes about green growth and decoupling; he is the lead author of “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).
Author: CEsA Communication (comunicacao@cesa.iseg.ulisboa.pt)
Images: CEsA/Reproduction
