How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology
Jason Hickel
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Jason Hickel to discuss how technology would change in a degrowth society and why it doesn’t make sense to organize society around profit and infinite expansion.
Guest
Jason Hickel is the author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. He’s also a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.
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Links
- Jason wrote about technology and degrowth and the objectives of democratic ecosocialism for Monthly Review.