Seminar: “Analysis of social wellbeing in Socialist Slovenia during the 1980-1990 crisis”

Speaker:  Aljoša Slameršak, ICTA-UAB postdoctoral researcher

Facilitation: Dylan Sullivan

• Date: Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
• Time:  15 -16h (CET)
• Venue: Online ONLY – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89678424340?pwd=beLbGW4GbNFHmj8Tk8nmAz5cz0p5bY.1

The post-growth ambition to decouple well-being and sustainability from economic growth is often dismissed as unrealistic due to the lack of historical precedent. To address this critique, I examine the case of the Yugoslav socialist republic of Slovenia during the 1980s economic crisis. Through an extensive analysis of social well-being indicators, I show that socialist Slovenia managed to maintain (or in some dimensions even improve) social well-being despite experiencing a prolonged crisis. Having achieved a partial delinking of social well-being from economic growth, albeit unintentionally, I argue that Slovenia’s “post-growth” experience demonstrates that such decoupling is indeed possible and offers valuable lessons for contemporary post-growth policy and politics.

Aljoša Slameršak is Policy Lab’s co-founder and a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB) and secretary of Research and Degrowth Internaitonal. In his research, Aljoša is modelling post-growth scenarios of ambitious climate mitigation and high human well-being.

The content was originally published on the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’s website at: https://www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-premsa-icta-uab/detall-activitat/seminar-analysis-of-social-wellbeing-in-socialist-slovenia-during-the-1980-1990-crisis-by-aljo-a-slamer-ak-1345819915078.html?detid=1345970796773.

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