Good read. Pass it along to your progressive friends that are still drinking the neoliberal kool-aid.
Jason Hickel's Blog
Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
Jason Hickel
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment — Jason Hickel
Good read. Pass it along to your progressive friends that are still drinking the neoliberal kool-aid.
Jason Hickel's Blog
Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
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Very good, and close to what Bill Mitchell has said elegantly years ago. But there is also a need for a cultural change. For any of this to work, we need to move people away from seeking to buy positional goods, and substituting the desire for these with positional public goods -- say as defined by the status of this community over others.
Sure looks like a cultural change will be achieved the hard way.
Rather better than I expected. Degrowth, just like growthmanship focuses on something which should be ignored rather than aimed toward or against. Being for - or against it - means swallowing the neoliberal, neoclassical - and ultimately useless and unintelligible point of view, of GDP, of GDP growth. Hickel is still struggling, but he seems to understand this better than earlier pieces he's written.
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