Timothée Parrique (pronounced “tea-mo-tay pa-rick”) is an economist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at HEC Lausanne – The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He works on the macroeconomics of degrowth and post-growth in Switzerland part of the STRIVE research project.
He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden), with a research stay at The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.
Tim is the author of Ralentir ou périr. L’économie de la décroissance (September 2022, Seuil), a wide-audience book adaptation of the first part of his PhD dissertation which has sold more than 50,000 copies in France and is being translated into eight languages, including Slow down or die. The economics of degrowth (2025), Wachstum bremsen oder untergehen. Wie wir mit Degrowth die Welt retten (2024), and Rallentare o morire. Per un’economia della post-crescita (2025).
He is also the author of La science de la post-croissance (2026).
Tim frequently writes about green growth and decoupling; he is the lead author of “Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth” (2019), a report published by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).
Tim is passionate about philosophy of science and academic writing. When not ranting about economics (usually on his personal blog), Tim likes to surf, climb, run, and do backflips on his mountain bike – yes, it’s possible. (He also spends more time than he would like to admit playing chess online.)
He blogs at https://timotheeparrique.com and posts regularly on Instagram (@timotheeparrique), Linked In, and Bluesky.