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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