An Open Letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates)
Steven Pinker’s paeans to the poverty-reducing power of globalization are long on rhetoric and short on evidence. Neoliberal capitalism has actually made global poverty worse.
Jason Hickel is an anthropologist, author, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Steven Pinker’s paeans to the poverty-reducing power of globalization are long on rhetoric and short on evidence. Neoliberal capitalism has actually made global poverty worse.
The UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals aim to save the world without transforming it.