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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌

@mmbuchs.bsky.social
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Professor of Sustainable Welfare, University of Leeds. Sustainable welfare, social-ecological policy, just transitions. Post-growth/wellbeing economics. Deep socio-economic transformation. Views my own.

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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
First past the post electoral rule is designed for a two party system. When the party landscape becomes more diverse it creates devastating results like this which do not reflect the actual majorities on the ground...
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yes it is! Went back yesterday as we hadn't managed the whole exhibition before, and also discovered @steffenlange.bsky.social in a section on beyond growth 😀 👍
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Very pleased to see that the Museum for Futures in Berlin has a whole section on Doughnut Economics!!! @kateraworth.bsky.social 🍩😀💕 #futurium
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It was great to discuss so many important ideas for eradicating poverty beyond growth at the EU Parliament event this week shorturl.at/k0kcG! Can't wait for Olivier de Schutter's @deschuttero.bsky.social roadmap being published in spring 2026 🙂
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
New Cronos3 survey shows that a majority of participants in all 11 countries agree that environmental protection is more important than economic growth and creating jobs! infra4nextgen.com/make-it-gree...
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
From the latest Guardian Weekly, about the Cop summits. Should have been obvious from the start...
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excited to be at the Wellbeing Economy Wales Festival of Ideas event today in Swansea 🎉😍
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
New paper by Anne Owen and me which asks whether we are likely to see generational shifts in carbon footprints in the UK. There is some reason for hope as Gen X and Millennials have smaller footprints compared to previous generations at the same life stage onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Author copy arrived today 😀
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Sandel proposes that instead of rewarding production per se, economies should put higher value on activities that actually improve societies (e.g. care work) while activities that are less valuable for society should be taxed more highly, e.g. speculation and financial transactions.
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
I enjoyed reading Michael Sandel's "The Tyranny of Merit". Sandel argues that meritocracy isn't actually just (e.g. talents are "unearned") and that it makes those less successful feel unappreciated, one of the factors he sees behind the rise of populism.
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Just read this lovely little book about Hannah Arendt's idea that friendship is an important dimension for the political sphere because it can foster open discussion of opposing opinions and help to bridge them. So much needed in an increasingly polarised world...
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Back in Leeds after a train trip to Vienna and Lausanne for work. First time I used an Interrail ticket which worked smoothly. Luckily I just about missed rail strikes in Germany, the UK, and for the Eurostar though 😅
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Looking forward to teaching a Masters course on postgrowth and social-ecological policy this week as guest professor at the University of Vienna 😊🐌
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