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    Capitalism, Ecology and Class Struggle in the 21st Century

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    Source: Institute of Development Studies

    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?  How can we realise rapid development and ensure good lives for all 8 billion people while achieving ecological objectives at the same time?

    The talk will draw from Jason Hickelā€™s research which focuses on global inequality and ecological economics, and follows his hugely successful books: Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020) and The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017).

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    Jason Hickel, ICREA Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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    Professor Anuradha Joshi, Director, IDS.

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    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.

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