Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word growthism.
Examples
-
Like other faiths, growthism is to be swallowed whole and simply internalized as truth.
-
The very language of growthism also reveals a male-defined drive for dominance - wherein we speak of "expanding" and "penetrating" markets and "dominating" the resources of other nations and people.
-
As with other monomanias, growthism admits of no uncertainty or inherent bias.
-
Worship of an ill-measured "growth" has naturally lead to an ideology of growthism - within which we now devalue and subordinate every other reason for living and being.
-
Today, no local autonomy, democratic decision, or national or cultural freedom is to interfere with capital's effectively-forced "interdependency" dictated by GATT/WTO and growthism.
-
As a process without limits, growthism has no relationship to the most important qualities in our lives, much less social equity, democracy, human rights, factor balance, or environmental sustainability.
-
In the interim, growthism remains the primary force in our lives due to enclosure, capital's supremacy, the extortion of labor, and a host of western, patriarchal, religio-economic, values from an age with little relation to our own.
-
As with other monomanias, growthism admits of no uncertainty or inherent bias.
-
Like other faiths, growthism is to be swallowed whole and simply internalized as truth.
-
The very language of growthism also reveals a male-defined drive for dominance - wherein we speak of "expanding" and "penetrating" markets and "dominating" the resources of other nations and people.
-
Another report, presented to the United Nations last month, goes further. The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth2 calls for escaping the “trap of growthism”, the idea that progress depends on continuously increasing gross domestic product (GDP).
How to end poverty and protect Earth: inside the debate tearing up economics Mariana Lenharo 2026
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.