Ooh those tricky poverty lines
Noah Smith had a rather exasperated blogpost (or newsletter post) out recently about Jason Hickel. Hickel, an anthropologist by training, has two major theses about the world: He believes that global poverty reduction is a myth, andHe believes that degrowth is the best solution to environmental problems.Both theses are wrong. And not just wrong in the “Ackshually, sir, … Continue reading “Ooh those tricky poverty lines”