HeyJaredJunaid B. Jahangir
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Islamic economics has questioned endless growth for centuries. What can it teach us today? (opens the original)
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As climate change and widening inequality intensify, economists are increasingly questioning whether endless economic growth is compatible with a healthy society and a finite planet. The degrowth movement has put this question at the centre of public debate. Advocates such as anthropologist Jason Hickel argue that we need to move away from the pursuit of ever-increasing production and consumption and towards meeting human needs within ecological limits. But this line of economic thought has a mu
Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from — and imagining new ones (opens the original)
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Economics shapes many aspects of our daily lives, from the prices we pay to the policies governments adopt. Yet many of the ideas taught as universal principles of economics emerged from a narrow historical context and have rarely been examined through a decolonial lens. A recently published book, Decolonizing Economics, argues that economics is long overdue for decolonization. Its authors contend that the discipline has largely overlooked how colonialism, empire and unequal power shaped the dev
7 accessible reads about building a fairer economy (opens the original)
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Recently, a group of high-profile economists wrote a piece for The Guardian about how growth is a doomed strategy. The piece took a holistic look at global poverty, inequality, living wages, extraction of resources, debt servicing, Indigenous struggles and climate justice. Such real-world issues are usually sidelined in introductory economics classes, which are typically concerned with building technical competencies — as I have written before, a problem that has been spotlighted partly through
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