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  •  | Plastics of all shapes sizes colors and composition enter the ocean every day with largely unknown impacts Studying these environmental impacts outside the lab and in the ocean is challenging Image by Florida Sea Grant via Flickr CC BY NC ND 20 DEED | MR Online

    How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data

    Originally published: Jason Hickel Blog on November 24, 2023 (more by Jason Hickel Blog)

    Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas.

  •  | 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.

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    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.

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    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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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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