Samuel Alexander

Dr Samuel Alexander is a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia, teaching a course called 'Consumerism and the Growth Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' in the Masters of Environment. He is also co-director of the Simplicity Institute and research fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, publishing widely on issues related to voluntary simplicity, degrowth and post-growth economics, energy descent, and transition strategies. He is author of Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013), editor of Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (2009), and co-editor of Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014). He blogs at www.simplicitycollective.com and posts most of his writings at www.thesufficiencyeconomy.com.