This is a bloody brilliant essay. Cheers!!!! I wonder how I missed it up till now. Probably because I am familiar Wolf's book. This is so much more than a review. You include one of the most straight-forward explanations of degrowth I have seen. I would merely add that it not just "the economy stupid", it is the economists. This might interest you: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue102/Daneke102.pdf