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Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
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https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3ln64jtyyqs2a
Published: April 19, 2025 12:17
So the makers of Hamilton the musical basically took a cabal of colonial oligarchs who perpetrated mass enslavement, child rape, apartheid and genocide and laundered them as "cool".
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3lmm4wk4rmk2l
Published: April 12, 2025 08:37
What's wild about the US tariffs is that they are not coupled with any industrial policy or public investment strategy that could plausibly deliver US re-industrialization. The result is that the tariffs will likely accelerate US industrial decline and…
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3lmhj3e3rn22u
Published: April 10, 2025 12:31
On this day in 1993, Chris Hani was assassinated by agents of the apartheid regime. He was the revolutionary leader of the South African Communist Party, wildly popular, and was set to become the nation’s president during the transition to democracy.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3lmfcrwgh322l
Published: April 9, 2025 15:33
One thing the US govt does not seem to understand is that its imports from the global South are underpriced, which means that the impact of losing them is greater, to end users, than their dollar value suggests.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3lmfcpja4c222
Published: April 9, 2025 15:31
South-South coordination is more crucial now than ever. Trump is using tariffs to force global South governments to accept US demands (to cut their export prices, abolish their industrial policy frameworks, devalue their currencies, and accept reduced US…
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3lm7pxo242s2k
Published: April 7, 2025 10:13
People need to understand that, in mainstream Western institutions, “good economics” does not mean what’s best for meeting the needs of working people, but what’s best for ensuring capital accumulation and imperial hegemony. That’s it.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3lm7pmegvqk2q
Published: April 7, 2025 10:06
The Trump tariffs are an opportunity for Global South countries to shift production away from exports to the imperial core and toward meeting human needs and national development objectives.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3llyv2mvjd22n
Published: April 4, 2025 16:55
When we learn about the Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the dehumanization, the total domination and the exercise of arbitrary violence. We feel the terror in our bones. And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every…
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3llyuwuhpzs2o
Published: April 4, 2025 16:53
Interesting comparison between China and the USA. China's incarceration rate is nearly 80% lower than in the US, and 32% lower than the world average.
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonhickel.bsky.social/post/3llyuw27lbc2o
Published: April 4, 2025 16:52
Every time Israeli soldiers behead a Palestinian child and our ruling classes accept this fact, we lose our collective humanity and slowly but surely our society proceeds toward savagery.