The Estonian Degrowth Reading Circle

Since the beginning of 2022, Degrowth Estonia has been operating a degrowth reading club, the goal of which is to read newer and older literature on degrowth and related topics, discuss the ideas, and make summaries to make the ideas accessible also to those who were unable to participate. We meet about once a quarter and in different places across Estonia. Discussions take place in Estonian.

Read so far:

• The Case for Degrowth, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis (2020)

• Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, Jason Hickel (2020)

• A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, Jeff Conant (2010)

• The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy, Katherine Trebeck & Jeremy Williams (2019)

• Degrowth & Strategy: How to bring about social-ecological transformation, ed. Barlow et al (2022)

• The Transition Handbook. From oil dependency to local resilience, Rob Hopkins (2008)

• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Kate Raworth (2017)

• The report Geopolitics of a Post-Growth Future (2024)

• Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher (2009)

• Breaking Together, Jem Bendell (2024)

• The Three Ecologies, Felix Guattari (1989)

• The report Getting wellbeing economy ideas on the policy table: theory, reality, pushback and next steps (2024)

• Ecology as Politics, Andre Gorz (1975)

• Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows (2008)

• The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison (2024)

• Road to Serfdom, Friedrich August Hayek (1944)

• Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson (2012)

• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)

In addition, the reading club has organized a few movie screenings. Watched so far:

• Finding the Money (2023)

• Food for Profit (2024)

• The Cost of Growth (2025)