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Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel is an author and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also a Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rodney Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, and the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health.
Jason's research focuses on political economy, inequality, and ecological economics, which are the subjects of his two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020), which was listed by the Financial Times and New Scientist as a book of the year.
It is common in Western discourse to claim there is a natural connection between capitalism and democracy. Sometimes the two concepts are…
As the global economy crashes yet again, wars and genocides rage, and fascism appears to be on the rise, the exchange of…
US politicians like to say that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But Israel is not a democracy. Not…
Universal basic income (UBI) has captured the attention of many progressives over the past several years. Simply put, it’s the idea that…
Conventional narratives in the West claim that the government in China lacks popular legitimacy and only retains power through coercion. But existing…
On March 4, Bernie Sanders published a statement saying “For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy”, expressing his concern that the Trump administration has…
Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods. Jason Hickel, Michail Moatsos and Dylan…
Prevailing narratives in international development hold that poorer countries can and will “catch-up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth.…
The Divide was first published in 2017. In the years since, many people have written to me, or approached me during public…