The promise of green growth turns out to have been based more on wishful thinking than on evidence. In the years since the Rio conference, three major empirical studies have arrived at the same rather […]
There is a third approach, however, proposed by Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge. Pogge argues that the morally relevant metric of progress against poverty is neither absolute numbers nor proportions, but rather the extent of global […]
Western media can’t seem to get enough of Moyo: her ideas stray little from old neoliberal mantras so endlessly recycled by establishment elites in the US and Europe. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works […]
That we are ignoring an impending ecological disaster does not necessitate much intellect. That the use of GDP is contributing to this process is also no secret. As Jason Hickel points out, both have to […]
There is much more to the UK University Strike than meets the eye., as jason Hickel explains. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He is the author of […]
Book review by Mathew D. Rose The subtitle of Jason Hickel’s book “The Divide” is something of an understatement. The book is neither brief, nor is it a guide. Instead Hickel has written a brilliant […]
GDP has become a fetish. This obsession with major GDP growth makes reducing CO² impossible. The other downside is that GDP growth mainly ends up enriching the 1 %. The solution lies in re-distribution. There […]
Jason Hickels explains his new book The Divide. Hickel uses newest facts, analyses, and theories concerning economic inequality between rich and poor nations, destroying current myths about development. View here
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