Rate My Professor Jason Hickel

Hickel's research centers on global inequality, political economy, and ecological economics. He has authored influential books including Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020), named a book of the year by the Financial Times and New Scientist; The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Penguin, 2017); and Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa (University of California Press, 2015). He is co-editor of Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014) and Hierarchy and Value: Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order (Berghahn, 2018). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Nature Sustainability, The Lancet Planetary Health, Global Environmental Change, and Nature Communications, covering topics such as unequal exchange of labor, degrowth scenarios, and imperialist appropriation. Hickel holds an ERC Synergy Grant as Lead Co-PI for the REAL project on post-growth economies (2023-2029) and has received funding from Horizon Europe. He serves as Associate Editor of World Development, on the advisory panel for the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health, and the Rodney Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice.