Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Climate Breakdown and the Degrowth Imperative
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Jason Hickel
Climate Crisis
Riccardo Mastini, Giorgos Kallis and Jason Hickel: Europe’s Green Deal is a tepid response to the climate crisis
The EU’s new climate plan hardwires an economic model that prizes GDP growth over ecological limits. Read here
Economics
Jason Hickel – Apartheid in the Global Governance System
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – The Global Food Crisis Is Here
It’s not just that climate change is ravaging the world’s agriculture. Agriculture is also ravaging the climate. Read here
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Climate Catastrophe: A Response to Hans Baer’s “Elephant in the Sky”
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 […]
Economics
Jason Hickel: Progress and its discontents
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. […]
Finance
Jason Hickel – A Response to Noah Smith About Global Poverty
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 […]
Finance
Jason Hickel – Inequality Metrics and the Question of Power
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 […]
Finance
Jason Hickel – How Not to Measure Inequality
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 […]
Finance
Jason Hickel – At This Rate, It Will Take 200 Years to End Global Poverty
“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. “ […]