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Jason Hickel

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Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

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By Olivier De Schutter Verified, Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh, Thomas Piketty Verified, Kate Raworth, Jason Hickel
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We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution. Millions of people cannot afford enough food, proper housing or basic healthcare, while a tiny minority accumulates unprecedented wealth and power. At the same time, droughts, megafires, floods and heatwaves remind us that our economies are pushing the planet beyond its limits. These are not separate crises.
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Capitalism, Ecology and Class Struggle in the 21st Century

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By Jason Hickel
| ZNetwork
In his IDS Annual Lecture, Jason Hickel will confront the deadly paradox that the capitalist world economy has us trapped in: on the one hand, we have massive amounts of production globally to the point of blowing past several planetary boundaries and driving dangerous ecological breakdown, yet billions of people remain deprived of access to basic goods and services. Hickel asks, how can this double crisis be overcome?
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Is Capitalism Fuelling Today’s Wars?

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By Jason Hickel, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla
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In this episode of Reframe, Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, general coordinator of Progressive International, asks political economist Jason Hickel if today’s conflicts are a continuation of centuries of colonialism and economic policies that favour the richest and most powerful nations. Hickel is an economic anthropologist and professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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