1/ For those new to degrowth and my work, here is a a brief presentation of my 3+1 books on degrowth (the +1 is coming out this September) with a few selected highlights. THREAD (23) 
2/ My first book is an edited volume, the Degrowth vocabulary, published by @routledgebooks, coordinated with my good friends and colleagues Giacomo D’Alisa and Federico Demaria. Published in 2014, we collected in the book chapters from the top thinkers on degrowth at the time.
3/ Our intention was to show that degrowth is not a monolithic concept, but a network of keywords and ideas, the whole more than the sum of the parts. We presented 52 interconnected concepts (conviviality, commons, basic income, work sharing, etc), each chapter linking to others.
4/ The book has chapters written from some of the top thinkers in the field - @JulietSchor, @ProfTimJackson, @DrDanONeill, @Commonify, Serge Latouche, to name just a few among many.
5/ In the introduction, still a good starting piece for newbies, we defined degrowth as a keyword. The book has also an intriguing closing chapter: we argue that the economic problem is not scarcity, but excess - how societies spend the surpluses that they inevitably produce.
6/ I wrote also a less read chapter on something that fascinates me, ‘the social limits to growth’: how growth can never satisfy a scarcity that under capitalism is largely positional. Not everyone can have a 'Ferrari' - if they did, Ferraris would be the equivalent of scooters.
7/ Relative scarcity propels the endless myth that we do not yet have enough, that we need one last push and then we will be fine. This idea I developed further in my 2019 book ‘Limits’ (@stanfordpress) - a book related to, but not part of my ‘tetralogy’ on degrowth ☺
8/ More than the texts we wrote for the degrowth vocabulary, I enjoyed the funny video we made with Leah Temper and Claudia Medina to advertise the book (). And the cover by Barbara Castro, which represented degrowth as gardening & picnicking!
9/ My second degrowth book, self-published in 2017 with @UnevenEarth is a collection of various opinion pieces and ‘minifestos’ I wrote ‘In Defense of degrowth’, between 2014 and 2017, beautifully edited by @a_vansi.
10/ You can download the book for free (or donate) at indefenseofdegrowth.com, or order a printed version from online retailers. The book consists of mostly digestible blogposts and newspaper articles, prefiguring and simplifying my more academic work.
11/ I have a short piece there sketching ‘The Degrowth Alternative’ (greattransition.org/publication/th…) published by the @GT_Initiative and a mini-festo @newint on why “The Left should embrace degrowth” (newint.org/features/web-e…).
12/ There is a lot also in this book on my concerns with the ecomodernist manifesto published around that time, prefiguring the longer book against ecomodernism that we are now working on with @ii_sambliss. See for example, undisciplinedenvironments.org/2015/05/07/pol…
13/ I am most proud in this book with some ‘off’ pieces with livelier prose. A story about how econ departments, notably Harvard purged Marxist leaning professors in the 1970s; & a comment on the ‘the Wolff of Wall Street’ linking it to @profdavidharvey's depictions of capital.
14/ My third book, with the imaginative title …’Degrowth’, was published in 2018 by @agendapub . This is my most complete book to date, with a textbook feel to it. You'll find a summary of the main claims/data in support of degrowth and an intellectual history of the movement.
15/In the book I make a small digression to discuss theories of value, discussing pros & cons of labour & ecological theories of value. Felt confident I said something new there, but no one has confirmed it ☺ Folks don't like their preferred theory of value questioned it seems..
16/ For those more familiar with the basics of degrowth, as well as for critics, the last chapter ‘debate and controversies’ will be the most interesting one.
17/ I have collected there all serious concerns with degrowth, and recognize limitations in our arguments & the current state of research. Good to read before writing to criticize or defend degrowth, so that we all go one step ahead together - advocates and critics.
18/ My forthcoming (and probably last book with degrowth on the title!) ‘The Case for Degrowth’ is published by @politybooks this September. Written in collaboration with the usual suspects G.Dalisa and F.Demaria, & with a new superwoman in the team, anthropologist Susan Paulson
19/ Susan wrote a lot of the text. As a result the book has a fresh take on degrowth, more anthropological and less 'economistic' or 'environmentalist' - with more attention on questions of race, gender and plurality.
20/ This is a brief, 20,000 words book, where we outline a political case and path for degrowth. We do not spend that much time criticizing growth – we address head front the question ‘how to’ degrow. (ignore the spelling error in my name in the cover, it's Greek anyway :)
21/ We ground degrowth transformations in practices and mobilizations around the commons, and a spirit of mutual aid and sufficiency, looking at the policies and politics that can scale up grassroots common senses and experimentation.
22/ We have an appendix also with FAQs (frequently asked questions, that is), so that when someone repeats to you a worn out critique of degrowth, you can exasperate “Faq, here is the answer, let’s move on buddy!”
23/ OK, I leave it here. If I see that there is enough interest in this thread, I will produce a similar one for my academic papers on degrowth too. END OF MY FIRST EVER THREAD ON TWITTER (now I see how it works, 'it's the plus button stupid...")
