Jason Hickel
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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I'm excited to announce this new paper with Dylan Sullivan and Michail Moatsos. We explore the effect of capitalist reforms on extreme poverty in China. It's a surprising and fasci...
Reparations for global climate justice? In this new paper we quantify the compensation that over-emitting countries may owe to the rest of the world for the appropriation of atmos...
On this day in 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was deposed in a coup backed by the US and UK. The coup was...
Here's a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2022, on capitalism, imperialism, degrowth and decolonization. It's all open-access, and free PDFs are available...
I want to tell you a story about something fascinating that has happened in Japan. An academic named Kohei Saito wrote a book about democratic "degrowth communism". Everyone said...
No, the British Empire did not spontaneously "end slavery". Credit for that goes to several generations of slave revolts—including the successful Haitian Revolution of 1804—and su...
People often claim that capitalism performed better than socialism in terms of poverty and human development in the 20th century. This story is repeated so frequently that no one e...
People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So...
This is remarkable: 170 Dutch academics put together a 5-point manifesto for economic change after the C19 crisis, building on #degrowth principles. It has gone viral in Dutch medi...