Matthias Schmelzer

Matthias Schmelzer studied history, philosophy and politics at the University of California at Berkeley, at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) where he is currently working on his thesis on the hegemony of the growth paradigm for his PhD in economic history. He is involved in Attac and has helped to organize the 2011 conference "Jenseits des Wachstums?" (“Beyond growth?”) in Berlin. In 2011 the book Postwachstum – Krise, ökologische Grenzen und soziale Rechte (Post growth - Crisis, ecological limits and social rights) that he wrote together with Alexis Passadakis, was published.