Economics in an Age of Climate Breakdown with Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist and author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. In this eye-opening talk he debunks the belief that GDP growth is equivalent to human progress and discusses the ways in which our emphasis on GDP growth has been responsible for the overconsumption of high income nations, which has led to total ecological overshoot. He elucidates the tyranny of growth that lies at the heart of our economies and puts forward several ideas for a post-growth economy, emphasising the need for a scale down of our economic activity which does not have to be at the expense of enhancing human flourishing. 

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