Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel: How to achieve full decolonization
Southern governments are captive to the demands of international capital, which prevents them from meeting their people’s real needs. MMT offers a way out Read here
Jason Hickel
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel: What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification
Here I set out to clarify three specific issues: (1) I specify what degrowth means, and argue that the framing of degrowth is an asset, not a liability; (2) I explain how degrowth differs fundamentally […]
Climate Crisis
The Taxcast/Jason Hickel – Degrowth: liberation from ‘growthism’
In this episode, Naomi Fowler explores degrowth and how we liberate ourselves from ‘growthism’ with economic anthropologist Jason Hickel. (The full converation will be released soon as a Taxcast Extra, the full conversation is too good to miss!) […]
Climate Crisis
Macro N Cheese – Jason Hickel: When Less is More
Listen here Steve’s guest, Dr. Jason Hickel, is an economic anthropologist whose research focuses on global inequality, political economy, post-development, and ecological economics. After listening to this episode, “degrowth” will become part of your vocabulary. For MMTers, it is a natural […]
Aviation
Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios – Jason Hickel, Paul Brockway, Giorgos Kallis, Lorenz Keyßer, Manfred Lenzen, Aljoša Slameršak, Julia Steinberger, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Established climate mitigation scenarios assume continued economic growth in all countries, and reconcile this with the Paris targets by betting on speculative technological change. Post-growth approaches may make it easier to achieve rapid mitigation while […]
Economics
BMJ Global Health – Global vaccine equity demands reparative justice — not charity
The G7’s promises of charity are not a solution to vaccine apartheid. We need justice: waive the patents and enable global South countries to ramp up vaccine production. By Sophie Harman, Parsa Erfani, Tinashe Goronga, […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – Extreme Poverty Isn’t Natural, It’s Created
There are myths that are very convenient if you belong to the 1% Jason Hickel is an academic at the University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His book “The […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – Is the world poor, or unjust?
“Our economic system is not designed to meet human needs; it is designed to facilitate capital accumulation.” Jason Hickel is an academic at the University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of […]
Climate Crisis
Renegade Inc. – Degrowth: The only way to grow with Jason Hickel and Asad Rehman
For decades we have been brainwashed into believing that unlimited growth is good. Economic growth is apparently the holy grail, rooted in outdated measurements like GDP and arbitrary stock-market digits… But what if these assumptions […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – Apartheid in the World Bank and the IMF
These institutions were designed with colonial principles in mind, and they remain largely colonial in character to this day. Jason Hickel is an academic at the University of London and a Fellow of the Royal […]