Growth Agnosticism
Growth agnosticism is the most uncomfortable of Raworth's seven shifts for mainstream economic thought because it severs the default link between economic success and economic expansion. A growth-agnostic economy does not pursue growth as an objective. It does not resist growth as a matter of principle. It is genuinely indifferent to whether the economy grows, stabilizes, or contracts, because it measures success by a different variable entirely: whether people are thriving within planetary boundaries.
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The distinction between growth-addicted and growth-agnostic is the load-bearing move. Growth is a phenomenon — a measurable increase in economic output. Growth addiction is a dependency — the structural inability of an economic system to function without continuous expansion. An economy can be healthy while growing, healthy while stable, or healthy while contracting, depending on whether the activity within it meets human needs within planetary boundaries. What an