As long as the IMF and World Bank maintain their dominance over the world trade and financial system we are going to see no change in global inequality or stopping the climate crisis. Both defy […]
It’s not just that climate change is ravaging the world’s agriculture. Agriculture is also ravaging the climate. Read here
Climate disaster reaches academia routine. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book is The Divide: A Brief Guide […]
The world has never been better. From global poverty to inequality between nations, all the indicators are showing progress. This is a comforting narrative – popularized by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker. […]
Like most articles in mainstream media there is no intention to analyse problems, but instead to distort and obfuscate serious discussion. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He […]
Behind the somewhat obscure title, this article contains some excellent examples of how correct data can be used to come to deceptive conclusions. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global […]
There are two primary methods for measuring inequality – relative and absolute. In the discipline of economics, the former has become dominant by far. It is embodied in the standard Gini index, in the famous […]
“Global poverty today isn’t natural or inevitable, it is an artifact of the very same policies that have been designed to siphon the lion’s share of global income into the pockets of the rich. “ […]
We are incessantly confronted with a good news narrative concerning world poverty. Many prominent scholars contradict this, pointing to increasing inequality. Jason Hickel examines one of the best known graphs behind the “success story” that […]
Russia Today speaks to Dr Jason Hickel, who serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, on inequality, a Green New Deal, his new book ‘The Divide’, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn and […]
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