Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World

Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World

Jason Hickel

Penguin UK

When a friend first introduced me to the idea of an alternative economy, to the idea that there were other, reasonable, workable, alternatives to capitalism, this was the book she suggested first. And what an introduction. Absolutely readable for a layperson, yet also deep and cogent in its argument. Jason offers us a history of capitalism, a discussion of technology’s impact and potential future, then imagines pathways to a post-capitalist world. he waves it all into a larger paradigm of the Anthropocene and a reminder of the regenerative, utterly connected world we live in.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is originally from Eswatini (Swaziland) and spent a number of years with migrant workers in South Africa, writing about exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. He has authored three books, including most recently The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. He writes regularly for the Guardian, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy, serves as an advisor for the Green New Deal for Europe and sits on the Lancet Commission for Reparations and Redistributive Justice. He lives in London.