Jason Hickel
New Internationalist
United Kingdom
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How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine
The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered. Britain must face up to this crime, says Jason Hickel. → Read More
Degrowth is about global justice
When it comes to what politicians can and cannot say, I do not think they absolutely must use the word “degrowth”, it's just a useful word → Read More
Extreme poverty isn't natural, it's created
The notion that extreme poverty is the baseline state of humanity falls apart, and it becomes clear that the story is more complicated. → Read More
Is the world poor, or unjust?
We know we face a crisis: the global economy is organized in such a way that nearly 60% of humanity is left unable to meet basic needs. → Read More
A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth
We absolutely need a Green New Deal, to mobilize a rapid rollout of renewable energy and put an end to fossil fuels. → Read More
Degrowth: A Response to Branko Milanovich
Degrowth provides an empirically-informed alternative: a pathway to reducing excess resource and energy use. → Read More
No, the "Environmental Kuznets Curve" won't save us
We note, however, that the Environmental Kuznets Curve is known to apply to only a limited range of impacts (such as air pollution). → Read More
The World’s Sustainable Development Goals Aren’t Sustainable at All
There are big problems with the most important metric used to assess progress toward the U.N.'s environmental goals. → Read More
The racist double standards of international development
The claim that we are making 'wonderful progress' against global poverty is a fallacy based on a colonial mindset. → Read More
Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next
Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries. → Read More
It’s not thanks to capitalism that we’re living longer, but progressive politics
Ignore the usual fairytale, it’s democracy that matters, says the academic Jason Hickel → Read More
Apartheid in the Global Governance System
The leaders of the World Bank and IMF are not elected, but are appointed by the US and Europe: according to an unspoken agreement, the president of the World Bank is always an American, → Read More
The Limits of Clean Energy
If the world isn’t careful, renewable energy could become as destructive as fossil fuels. → Read More
The Global Food Crisis Is Here
It’s not just that climate change is ravaging the world’s agriculture. Agriculture is also ravaging the climate. → Read More
A Response to Noah Smith about Global Poverty
During the debate about the global poverty numbers, the Bloomberg opinion columnist Noah Smith wrote a piece discussing some of my claims.. → Read More
Inequality Metrics and the Question of Power
One of the main reasons we are concerned about inequality in the first place is that it allows rich people to exercise power over the lives of the poor. → Read More
Global Inequality: Do We Really Live in a One-Hump World?
Because the global economy has been organized to facilitate the North’s access to cheap labour, raw materials, and captive markets in the South → Read More
How Bad Is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner using World Bank data (see below). The... → Read More
How Bad is Global Inequality, Really?
Most everyone who’s interested in global inequality has come across the famous elephant graph, originally developed by Branko Milanovic and Christoph Lakner → Read More
Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal
Global economic growth is outstripping our green efforts. A cap must be put on consumption before is it cripples us, says anthropologist Jason Hickel → Read More