PLAY PODCASTS
JASON HICKEL: Degrowth economics! It’s wild, it could save us…
Episode 33

JASON HICKEL: Degrowth economics! It’s wild, it could save us…

Wild with Sarah Wilson · Sarah Wilson

March 22, 202250m 12s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (sphinx.acast.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel is possibly the leading voice in the degrowth movement that's bubbling about the place. Heard of it? Degrowth pivots around the wild idea that constant growth - and GDP - is the wrong goal. Instead, human, and planetary wellbeing should be our marker of progress. You know, if we want to survive. I drill Jason on the implications: the necessary end of capitalism, four-day work weeks, accepting renewable growth can't save us (eek!), the uncomfortable truth that our unchecked obsession with “more" is killing the poor (despite what Bill Gates will try telling you). Basically, all the talking points to chuck on the table at your next (too) comfortable dinner party!

Read Less is More by Jason Hickel: https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/Gj1rqn 


Find out more about Sarah Wilson 

Subscribe to Sarah's Substack newsletter 

Get your copy of Sarah's book, This One Wild and Precious Life

Connect on Instagram


See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.