Timothée Parrique is a researcher in ecological economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Clermont Auvergne and Stockholm University, and is the author of "Slow down or die. The economics of degrowth" (2025).
A pyromaniac in a fire-station. That’s how I felt writing a PhD on degrowth in an economics department. I still remember the bewildered face of the department...