A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible solution to the climate crisis- a new economic model, and a new way of viewing our relationship with the natural world.
Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is originally from Eswatini (Swaziland) and spent a number of years with migrant workers in South Africa, writing about exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. He has authored three books, including most recently The Divide- A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. He writes regularly for the Guardian, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy, serves as an advisor for the Green New Deal for Europe and sits on the Lancet Commission for Reparations and Redistributive Justice. He lives in London.
Jason is able to personalise the global and swarm the mind with
ideas ... Heed his beautifully rendered warning.
*Russell Brand*
A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times. Jason Hickel
takes all we've been been told about growth and development and
turns it inside out, offering instead a radically possible vision
of a post-growth future. If you're looking for transformative
ideas, this book is for you.
*Kate Raworth, economist and author of Doughnut Economics*
A masterpiece pulling together the ecological disaster wake-up call
from The Uninhabitable Earth, the economic enlightenment from
Piketty's Capital, and the colonial history from Jason's own The
Divide. Just ace.
*David Heinemeier Hansson*
Eye-opening and passionate, Jason Hickel shows how the insatiable
drive to increase GDP has caused the ecological crisis, reveals the
historical and colonial roots of capitalism and argues that an
ecologically sensitive economic based on 'degrowth' is essential
for us to flourish.
*New Scientist*
A masterpiece... Less is More covers centuries and continents,
spans academic disciplines, and connects contemporary and ancient
events in a way which cannot be put down until it's finished. So
much needs to change; although beginning that change might require
nothing more than asking the right question.
*Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography, University of Oxford*
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