A response to the Financial Times: The shrinking arguments against degrowth

On 26 June 2026, the Financial Times ran a piece titled “The shrinking arguments for degrowth.” Written by John Burn-Murdoch, the FT’s chief data reporter, the column argues that “the idea that economic growth is a barrier to achieving better outcomes is at best outdated, in many cases a misreading of the data.” He builds his case […]