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Susan Paulson and Jason Hickel – “Everything you wanted to know about Degrowth (But didn’t know who to ask).”
This is our podcast from 9 December 2020
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Jason Hickel – A Response to Pollin and Chomsky: We Need a Green New Deal Without Growth
“We need to call for a different kind of economy altogether: one that is organized around the interests of human well-being and ecology, rather than around the interests of capital.” Jason Hickel is an anthropologist […]
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Jason Hickel – Degrowth: A Response to Branko Milanovic
Capitalism has put enormous strain on ecological interdependence, bringing us closer to tipping points where the earth’s resilience becomes exhausted and intensifying feedback loops precipitate more and more interrelated crises. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist […]
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Jason Hickel – On resource use and the “Environmental Kuznets Curve”
When academics like Andrew McAfee have no good arguments, they fabricate them employing the false interpretation of data. Well known from climate crisis deniers. Or you can make a mess of your excel tables to […]
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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World by Jason Hickel
Book Review by Justin H. Vassallo The window for countries to alter earth’s frightening ecological trajectory is rapidly passing. As climate change has morphed into a climate crisis over the past twenty years, the proposed […]
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Jason Hickel – Degrowth and MMT: A Thought Experiment
The progressive pieces are coming together. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book, Less is More, just appeared. […]
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Upstream Podcast: Jason Hickel on International Development and Post-capitalism
Jason Hickel on global inequality, the climate crisis, and how degrowth is ultimately a call for decolonization… plus a critique of the coloniality of Nick Kristof’s thought. Listen here
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Jason Hickel: Outgrowing growth: why quality of life, not GDP, should be our measure of success
Mainstream economics still thinks growth is essential, but this blind belief in GDP is just enriching the rich and killing the planet. We don’t need more growth to improve people’s lives. By working less, buying […]
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Jason Hickel – Climate Breakdown and the Degrowth Imperative
This is in English!
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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