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Timothée Parrique
Personal blog · timotheeparrique.comeconomicspolitics
Timothée Parrique's personal blog at timotheeparrique.com covers economics and politics. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these degrowth posts as sources, including on degrowth in the IPCC AR6 report and a response to Noah Smith's critique. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
At least degrowth is mentioned (a lot) in the latest IPCC report: https://timotheeparrique.com/degrowth-in-the-ipcc-ar6-wgiii/
Comment linking /degrowth-in-the-ipcc-ar6-wgiii/
on “Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions”I'm sorry but this is a misinterpretation of the degrowth thesis. The proponents behind degrowth (i.e Hickels, Kallis) are constantly correcting this misinterpretation. Degrowth stipulates that the global south actually needs to continue to grow to reach important indicators associated to the quality of life of their citizens. According to them, the actual "degrowth" has to happen in the global north where economies…
Comment linking /sufficiency-means-degrowth/
on “Southern thought, islandness and real-existing degrowth in the Mediterranean”The degrowth folks are used to the critiques ( https://twitter.com/timparrique/status/1430155819404963841/p... ) and have responded to Noahpinion's piece: https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-noah-smith-is-deg...
Comment linking /a-response-to-noah-smith-is-degrowth-bad-economics/
on “Examples of Post-Growth Practices”