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Jason Hickel’s recent book «Less is more: How degrowth will save the world» was showered with international praise. Jason Hickel’s rhetorical skills are also well known.
In it, Jason Hickel takes stock of capitalism: instead of prosperity for all, our way of doing business has produced a life full of artificial scarcity, social injustice and massive environmental destruction.
Hickel is convinced that if we want to survive the crises of our time, we must free ourselves from capitalism. The alternatives lie neither in communism nor in radical renunciation. The goal is an economy that works for the benefit of all and preserves our livelihoods.
Hickel’s analysis of the current situation is impressive and clear – he also develops concrete steps for a necessary transformation and makes a remarkable contribution to the question of how sustainability can be implemented in a socially just way.
His book is the Financial Times’ book of the year.
«A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times. Jason Hickel takes everything we’ve 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…» Professor Danny Dorling, University of Oxford
«Rarely has a closer look provided so many aha moments as when reading Jason Hickel.» Maja Göpel.
«He writes elegantly, he has temperament and he is unscrupulous.» Deutschlandfunk Kultur
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