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A blog about post-growth economy by Laura Wiman. Senior Scientist at VTT. nofunallowed.fi

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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Medium-term effects of zero growth: Finland 2008-2025 ❄️⛄ nofunallowed.fi/2026/01/05/m...
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Medium-term effects of zero growth: Finland 2008-2025
Tl;dr: Finland, a social democratic welfare state, has experienced an average annual nominal GDP growth rate of 0.3% between 2008 and 2025. There are few obvious economic “effects” of s…
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Valtionvelka ei ole aikapommi💣😭 nofunallowed.fi/2025/11/19/v...
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Valtionvelka ei ole aikapommi
Suomalaiset ovat huolissaan valtionvelasta. Yksi velkaan liitetty konkreettinen huoli on, että velan hinta nousee velan määrän kasvaessa. Velan määrä taas on kasvanut pitkään ja voi pompahtaa jonki…
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Is post-growth economics policy-relevant?🍬 nofunallowed.fi/2025/11/26/i...
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Is post-growth economics policy-relevant?
Economics tends to get particular attention from policymakers compared to other social sciences – or even the sciences broadly. An economic perspective is less likely to be overlooked in policymaki…
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Can we have a welfare state without growth? Yes, no, and yes. 🌞💀🌞 nofunallowed.fi/2025/11/19/c...
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Book out! We have a chapter in it titled 'The growth-independent welfare state'!
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I wrote a working paper titled "Pensions can work without economic growth". It's in the Post-Growth Economics Network series. If you're interested in arguments why/how basic institutions "can work" without growth, this may be for you! :)) www.postgrowtheconomics.org/wp-content/u...
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I wrote a working paper titled "Pensions can work without economic growth". It's in the Post-Growth Economics Network series. If you're interested in arguments why/how basic institutions "can work" without growth, this may be for you! :)) www.postgrowtheconomics.org/wp-content/u...
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
✨New paper: Are pensions "growth-dependent"? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Are pensions “growth-dependent”?
Limits to growth raise concerns about “growth dependencies” or adverse social effects that follow if the economy does not grow. The first point of this article is that identifying pensions as growt...
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No Fun Allowed @laurawiman.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
hello, I would like to dedicate my first post to: my model doesn't work and I don't know why
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