Economics: Growth or Degrowth?

Surely growth is always a good thing. Yet in recent years some thinkers have been challenging the consensus that economic growth is an unalloyed good. So, should governments no longer aim to foster economic growth and instead aim at something else? If so, what should that alternative be?

This short course considers the arguments of thoughtful economists about the topic of economic growth, encouraging you to come to your own considered position on this major discussion point of our age. "