Jason Hickel
✓ Source-basedfallingEconomic anthropologist (born 1982)
Jason Edward Hickel is a Swazi economic anthropologist, academic and democratic eco-socialist.
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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]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Global-inequality-in-1800-1975-and-2015.png/1280px-Global-inequality-in-1800-1975-and-2015.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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Extreme poverty should not exist, period.
"Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism" with Dylan Sullivan (July 1, 2023)
If the whole population were to consume and emit like Ireland and Switzerland, we would be living on a dead planet right now.
Extreme Poverty isn't Natural, it's Created (28 March 2021)
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.
Welcome to the Anthropocene, p. 8
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About this person
Jason Edward Hickel is a Swazi economic anthropologist, academic and democratic eco-socialist. 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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