Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel
Hickel in 2021
Born1982 (age 41–42)
Eswatini
NationalityEswati, British
Occupation(s)Academic, author
Websitejasonhickel.org

Jason Edward Hickel[1] (born 1982) is an anthropologist and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[2] Hickel's research and writing focuses on economic anthropology and development, and is particularly opposed to capitalism, neocolonialism, as well as economic growth as a measure of human development.[3][4]

Hickel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a visiting senior fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He is associate editor of the journal World Development, and serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences.[5]

He is known for his books The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (2017) and Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (2020). A critic of capitalism, he argues that degrowth is the solution to human impact on the environment.

  1. ^ One Hundred and Eighty-Third Final Exercises (PDF). University of Virginia. 20 May 2012. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Jason Hickel - Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology - UAB Barcelona". www.uab.cat. Retrieved 11 September 2023.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Hickel, Jason (23 September 2015). "Forget 'developing' poor countries, it's time to 'de-develop' rich countries". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Five reasons to think twice about the UN's Sustainable Development Goals". South Asia@LSE. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  5. ^ "About". Jason Hickel. Retrieved 11 September 2023.