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Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World by Jason Hickel

(William Heinemann Publishing, 2020)

“Growth is the centrepiece of capitalism. Without growth, capitalism cannot exist. It has historically relied on “fixes” such as enclosures, colonization, the destruction of nature, neoliberalism and the exploitation of the global South. Developed Northern economies have a historical debt to Southern ones.

Degrowth will not make our living standards worse. Actually, it will make them better. By forcing us to refocus from growth to distribution, we will realize that it has not been growth that has given us higher living standards. In fact it has been capitalism that has created artificial shortages, to force us to partake.”

Less is More: How Degrowth will Save the World by Jason Hickel

(William Heinemann Publishing, 2020)

“Growth is the centrepiece of capitalism. Without growth, capitalism cannot exist. It has historically relied on “fixes” such as enclosures, colonization, the destruction of nature, neoliberalism and the exploitation of the global South. Developed Northern economies have a historical debt to Southern ones.

Degrowth will not make our living standards worse. Actually, it will make them better. By forcing us to refocus from growth to distribution, we will realize that it has not been growth that has given us higher living standards. In fact it has been capitalism that has created artificial shortages, to force us to partake.”