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Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Max Koch

FD och habilitation i sociologi från Freie Universität Berlin | Professor

Max Koch. Foto: Johan Persson.

Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states

Författare

  • Alexander Paulsson
  • Max Koch
  • Martin Fritz

Summary, in English

The environmental crisis, increased inequality and an aging population are likely to increase the demand for welfare services in the OECD countries. Economic growth has long been seen as a solution to these problems. However, this is no longer the case. Very few countries have managed to decouple economic performance from ecological footprints and greenhouse gas emissions. Even where this has been achieved, the rates of emission-decline are too slow to match the Paris climate targets. Consequently, interdisciplinary research is key to probe how welfare systems may cope with these challenges, and how welfare provision and economic growth may be decoupled. By drawing on the basic human needs approach and a unique set of data, we explore the social and ecological performances of OECD countries relative to their economic performances. While high-income countries display diminishing welfare returns as economic performance is not improving the satisfaction of health-related needs, the lower-income countries might yield significant surplus if moving to the level of moderate-income countries. However, the satisfaction of autonomy-related needs is so far strongly coupled to economic performance and thus much harder to achieve in an ecologically sustainable way.

Avdelning/ar

  • Socialhögskolan
  • Socialpolitik och hållbarhet
  • LU profilområde: Naturbaserade framtidslösningar
  • CIRCLE
  • Organisation

Publiceringsår

2024-01-03

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Critical Social Policy

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • Degrowth
  • postgrowth
  • welfare systems
  • needs satisfaction
  • OECD

Aktiv

Epub

Projekt

  • Postgrowth Welfare Systems
  • Economic Elites in the Climate Change Transformation: Practices, justifications and regulations of unsustainable lifestyles in Sweden

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0261-0183