Capitalism, climate change and inequality: what is the way forward?

As today’s ecological and economic crises reveal the contradictions inherent in our productive model, the idea of degrowth — radically descaling production and consumption — has gained passionate advocates as well as critics. Should degrowth be our political priority? Can we downscale the economy and avoid the threat of recessionary crisis?

In this event, we are joined by Branko Milanović and Jason Hickel, whose discussions on degrowth have sparked global attention.

Meet our speakers and chair

Branko Milanovic is Research Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) and Visiting Professor at the Institute for International Inequalities at LSE.

Jason Hickel is Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA-UAB) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and Distinguished Researcher at the Department of Political Science & Public Law.

Robin Archer is the director of the Ralph Miliband Programme and director of the postgraduate programme in political sociology at LSE. He is the author of Economic Democracy: The Politics of Feasible Socialism.

More about this event

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The Ralph Miliband (@RMilibandLSE) programme is one of the LSE’s most prestigious public lecture series, receiving attention not only at the LSE but across London, the UK, and globally. The programme was set up in 1996 thanks to a generous anonymous benefaction from a former PhD student inspired by ‘Ralph Miliband’s contribution to social thought’. He specified that the funds be used in memory of his friend and mentor ‘to advance his spirit of free social inquiry’ and the diversity of thought that has always been the hallmark of LSE.

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