01252nas a2200109   4500008004100000245004800041210004800089260001200137520090200149100002201051856006901073       2014                        eng d00aTime use in an Alternative Degrowth Society0 aTime use in an Alternative Degrowth Society  aLeipzig3 a<p>A time use perspective in economics has to recognise that time is more than an input to commodities, produced by households. Time is not money! If anything, time is life. How we spend our time provides us with skills as well as information. It determines the formation of habits and preferences. The activities we pursue with great motivation and enthusiasm, be it paid work or any other activity, substantially influence our personal abilities, attitudes and perception of the world. Dealing with time use has the capacity to reveal cultural patterns detrimental to a degrowth society. It also has the capacity to find out about necessary societal changes. In this short presentation I try to make concrete recommendations how time use has to be changed to achieve an alternative degrowth society. Those recommendations also require institutional change and changes in corporate behaviour.</p>1 aFellner, Wolfgang  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/scientific-papers/3657