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Jason Edward Hickel is an economic anthropologist whose research focuses on global inequality and political ecology. He is known for his books The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World . He is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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✵ 26. December 1982

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“In the absence of more consumers, capital finds ways to get existing consumers to consume more. Indeed, the dominant story for the past few hundred years: the growth rate of material use has always significantly outstripped the growth rate of the population.”

Jason Hickel

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Source: Rise of the Juggernaut, pp. 111-112

“It was only with the rise of capitalism over the past few hundred years, and the breathtaking acceleration of industrialization from the 1950s, that on a planetary scale things began to tip out of balance.”

Jason Hickel

Capitalism: A Creation Story, p. 39
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)

“We are sleepwalking into a mass extinction event - the sixth in our planet's history, and the first to be caused by human economic activity. The rate of extinction is now 1,000 times faster than before the Industrial Revolution.”

Jason Hickel

Source: Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021), Welcome to the Anthropocene, p. 8

“Degrowth is completely different. It is about shifting to a different kind of economy altogether – an economy that doesn't need growth in the first place. An economy that's organised around human flourishing and ecological stability, rather than around the constant accumulation of capital.”

Jason Hickel

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2021)
Source: Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World, p. 207

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