Bodily autonomy and de-growth...

Thanks to Aditya Chaturvedi for his review of A Planet of 3 Billion entitled “Reinventing Economics for the Age of Autonomy”.  When you write an interdisciplinary book, it is always interesting to see what thread a reviewer pulls first.  Aditya clearly keyed in on my arguments regarding how the myopic views of Neoclassical Economists often end up influencing nations to pursue pro-natalist policies - and my call for  “Reinventing Economics for an Era of Degrowth”.  I actually really like Aditya’sformulation, as women’s empowerment, women’s education, women’s integration in to the workforce, and their access to family planning technology promise to unleash a level of bodily autonomy, economic autonomy, and social autonomy for women that will allow us to close the gap between demonstrated and desired levels of fertility.  And, when the global population curve bends, we will truly need a new set of economic concepts if we are to successfully navigate to this lower, more sustainable population plateau.