Putting Responsibility Centre Stage: The Underlying Values of Responsible Stagnation
Putting Responsibility Centre Stage: The Underlying Values of Responsible Stagnation
This chapter shows how the concept of ‘responsible stagnation’ opens up a new way of looking at some of the problems with markets, GDP growth and innovation systems as they currently stand. It discusses the concept of ‘stagnation’ and why it provokes such fear on the part of policymakers and politicians, before examining the normative values of Responsible Stagnation and how ‘responsibility’ might be imagined in this setting. It considers the value of slowed reasoning in better decision-making, and innovating from an ethics of care. The chapter closes with a discussion on RS as a particular configuration of change, both social and material, that places responsibility centre-stage and offers its own set of priorities, regardless of their contribution to GDP.
Keywords: consequences of innovation, ethics of care, GDP growth, responsibility, social values, societal benefit
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