Jason Hickel

Economic anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1982 · age 43

Jason Edward Hickel is a Swazi economic anthropologist, academic and democratic eco-socialist.

Jason Hickel is read about 179 times a day, in 12 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 25 September 2026

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A life in dates

2023“Extreme poverty should not exist, period.”In their words1 July 2023"Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism" with Dylan SullivanRead the whole statement

2021“If the whole population were to consume and emit like Ireland and Switzerland, we would be living on a dead planet right now.”In their words28 March 2021Extreme Poverty isn't Natural, it's CreatedRead the whole statement

“A few years ago, virtually no one was talking about this . . . everyone just assumed that the web of life would always be intact.”In their wordsWelcome to the Anthropocene, pp. 8-9Read the whole statement

“Capitalism rose on the back of organized violence, mass impoverishment, and the systematic destruction of self-sufficient subsistence economies.”In their wordsCapitalism: A Creation Story, p. 48Read the whole statement

“It's no wonder that we react so nonchalantly to the ever-mounting statistics about the crisis of mass extinction. We have a habit of taking this information with surprising calm.”In their wordsCapitalism: A Creation Story, p. 80Read the whole statement

“In the absence of more consumers, capital finds ways to get existing consumers to consume more.”In their wordsRise of the Juggernaut, pp. 111-112Read the whole statement

1982Born26 December 1982

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Global income distribution over time (Our World in Data). The chart shows a significant shift of incomes toward higher levels. Critics of Hickel, such as economists Max Roser and Noah Smith, cite this figure as evidence that global poverty has decreased,[19] in contrast to Hickel's narrative.[20][21]

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Jason Hickel

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We are sleepwalking into a mass extinction event - the sixth in our planet's history, and the first to be caused by human economic activity.
2021 · Welcome to the Anthropocene, p. 8, Own words
But the rise of capitalism also depended on something else. It needed labour. Lots of it, and cheap. solved this problem too.
2021 · Capitalism: A Creation Story, p. 47, Own words
Of course, we also have to think about the role of population going forward. The more the , the more difficult this challenge will be.
2021 · Rise of the Juggernaut, pp. 110-111, Own words

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About this person

He is a professor at the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a visiting senior fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and was the Chair of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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United States