The Divide by Jason Hickel

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The Divide by Jason Hickel

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Join author Jason Hickel and guests for a discussion on The Divide - a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. The discussion will explore the reality that poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and that aid only helps to hide this.
The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined.
Today, 60 per cent of the world’s population lives on less than $5 a day.
Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty.
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Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is Associate Editor of the journal World Development, and serves on the Statistical Advisory Panel for the UN Human Development Report 2020, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, and the Harvard-Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice.
Jason's research focuses on global inequality, political economy, post-development, and ecological economics, which are the subjects of his two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020).
Robert Knox is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice University of Liverpool and is an Editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and the London Review of International Law. His research research analyses the interconnections between imperialism, processes of racialisation and international institutions.
Chaired by Becka Hudson who is a researcher and campaigner on criminal justice issues.

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@rodrigoribeiro9057 10 ай бұрын

To end plunder, humanity needs to become aware that imperialism, capitalism, colonialism and, last but not least, growth must end. The big question is how to reach the cultural mass that leads people to demand the end of the current economic and financial system. What do we collectively expect to achieve if the FIRE sector (a parasitic rentier class), Wall Street and the City of London, institutions like the IMF and World Bank, asset management firms like BlackRock and Vanguard, and the TINA mentality are not eradicated? In that case, I see no possibility for radical change. I could be wrong (and it would be good if I were) but I think that in the current political, cultural and ideological context the majority of citizens are more predisposed to enable a techno-fascist regime than an eco-socialist one. Many on the left are excited about the Chinese economic growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens out of extreme poverty; it is an extraordinary success but couldn't it be achieved without embarking on the mindless Western-style consumerism? There is a megalomaniacal impulse to build impressive works of engineering and architecture; some of them are necessary but others could be avoided. If the Chinese economy's commitment were not to growthism, capitalist, socialist, or mixed, it doesn't matter; the destruction of the planet to extract mineral resources and raw materials will still increase when it should be decreasing.