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  • | Public services are a common good reads a placard on the March 22 protest in Paris over cuts labour rights and privatisation Photo Twittercommeunbruit | MR Online

    Universal public services: The power of decommodifying survival

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on April 11, 2023 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.

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    Is the world poor, or unjust?

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on February 21, 2021 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    Social media has been ablaze with this question recently. We know we face a crisis of mass poverty: the global economy is organized in such a way that nearly 60% of humanity is left unable to meet basic needs. But the question at stake this time is different.

  • | Green New Deal Photo Bart Everson | MR Online

    A response to Pollin and Chomsky: We need a Green New Deal without growth

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on November 2, 2020 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    Robert Pollin and Noam Chomsky have a new book out, Climate Crisis and the Green New Deal. It’s an important contribution to the emerging GND literature, from two thinkers I respect.

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    A response to Noah Smith about global poverty

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on June 14, 2019 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    During the debate about the global poverty numbers that unfolded earlier this year, the Bloomberg opinion columnist Noah Smith wrote a piece discussing some of my claims. In the months since a number of people have asked me to respond.

  • | democracy chronicles Income Inequality Thomas Nast Style | by democracychronicles | MR Online

    Inequality metrics and the question of power

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on July 3, 2019 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    How should we measure inequality?

  • | Income inequality has been growing for decades and Americans are LSE Blogs | MR Online

    How not to measure inequality

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on May 15, 2019 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    When we look at inequality from the perspective of the poor – using the theory of increasing egregiousness – it becomes clear that the relative metric is inappropriate as a tool for assessing distribution. Certainly if our objective is to end poverty, this is the conclusion we must draw, as an additional dollar going needlessly to the rich could have been used to reduce poverty, and yet was not.

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    Inequality and the ecological transition

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on January 14, 2019 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    Last month Branko Milanovic published a blog post about the Yellow Vest movement against the fuel tax in France. He was worried–like many analysts–that the uprising proves it will be virtually impossible to roll out the policies necessary to reduce carbon emissions. He’s convinced that people simply won’t accept it.

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    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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    The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social problems by militaristic interventions, on any scale, are obvious enough. If, however, we look more closely at the historical trend of militaristic adventures, it becomes frighteningly clear that they show an ever greater intensification and an ever-increasing scale, from local confrontations to […]

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