articles
Compensation for atmospheric appropriation [PDF]
With Andrew Fanning
Nature Sustainability, 2023
Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health and racial justice [PDF]
With Deivanayagam, English, Bonifacio, Guinto, Hill, Huq, Issa, Mulindwa, Nagginda, Sato, Selvarajah, Sharma, Devakumar
The Lancet, 2023
Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation? [PDF]
With Dylan Sullivan and Michail Moatsos
New Political Economy, 2023
Capitalogenic disease: social determinants in focus [PDF]
With Guddi Singh
BMJ Global Health, 2023
Capitalism, global poverty, and the case for democratic socialism [PDF]
With Dylan Sullivan
Monthly Review, 2023
The double objective of democratic ecosocialism [PDF]
Monthly Review, 2023
On technology and degrowth [PDF]
Monthly Review, 2023
Is green growth happening? Achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries [PDF]
With Jefim Vogel
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2023
How to pay for saving the world: Modern Monetary Theory for a degrowth transition [PDF]
With Christopher Olk and Colleen Schneider
Ecological Economics, 2023
Post-growth: a viable path to limiting global warming to 1.5C [PDF]
With Aljosa Slamersak, Giorgos Kallis, Daniel O’Neill
One Earth, 2023
Integrated Assessment Modelling of degrowth scenarios for Australia [PDF]
With Mengyu Li, Lorenz Keyßer, Jarmo Kikstra, Paul Brockway, Nicolas Dai, Arunima Malik & Manfred Lenzen
Economic Systems Research, 2023
Which direction for sustainable development? A time series comparison of the impacts of redistributive versus market policies in Bolivia and South Korea [PDF]
With Karen Bell, Rob Arbon, Huzaifa Zoomkawala
Sustainable Development, 2023
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990-2015 [PDF]
With Christian Dorninger, Hanspeter Wieland and Intan Suwandi
Global Environmental Change, 2022
National responsibility for ecological breakdown: a fair-shares assessment of resource use, 1970–2017 [PDF]
With Daniel O’Neill, Andrew Fanning and Huzaifa Zoomkawala
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2022
Capitalism and extreme poverty: a global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century [PDF] [Appendices]
With Dylan Sullivan
World Development, 2022
Existing climate mitigation scenarios perpetuate colonial inequalities [PDF]
With Aljosa Slamersak
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2022
Degrowth can work - here’s how science can help [PDF]
With Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel O’Neill, Juliet Schor, Julia Steinberger, Peter Victor & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Nature, 2022
Climate change, health, and discrimination: action towards racial justice [PDF]
With Deivanayagam, Selvarajah, Guinto, de Morais Sato, Bonifacio, English, Huq, Mulindwa, Nagginda, Sharma, Devakumar
The Lancet, 2022
Degrowth scenarios for emissions neutrality [PDF]
With Manfred Lenzen and Lorenz Keyßer
Nature Food, 2022
The Anti-Colonial Politics of Degrowth [PDF]
Political Geography, 2021
Plunder in the Post-Colonial Era: Quantifying Drain from the Global South Through Unequal Exchange, 1960–2018 [PDF]
With Dylan Sullivan and Huzaifa Zoomkawala
New Political Economy, 2021
Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios [PDF] [Open access]
With Brockway, Kallis, Keyßer, Lenzen, Slameršak, Steinberger and Ürge-Vorsatz
Nature Energy, 2021
The Social Shortfall and Ecological Overshoot of Nations [PDF] [Open access]
With Andrew Fanning, Daniel O’Neill and Nicolas Roux
Nature Sustainability, 2021
What Does Degrowth Mean? A Few Points of Clarification [PDF]
Globalizations, 2021
Can we live within environmental limits and still reduce poverty? Degrowth or decoupling? [PDF]
A debate with Stéphane Hallegatte
Development Policy Review, 2021
A Green New Deal Without Growth? [PDF]
With Riccardo Mastini and Giorgos Kallis
Ecological Economics, 2021
The (Anti) Politics of Central Banking: Monetary Policy, Class Conflict, and the Limits of Sovereignty in South Africa [PDF]
Economy & Society, 2021
Global vaccine equity demands reparative justice - not charity
With Sophie Harman, Parsa Erfani, Tinashe Goronga, Michelle Morse, Eugene T Richardson
BMJ Global Health, 2021
Is Green Growth Possible? [PDF]
With Giorgos Kallis
New Political Economy, 2020
Quantifying National Responsibility for Climate Breakdown: An Equality-Based Attribution Approach to CO2 Emissions in Excess of the Planetary Boundary [PDF]
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2020
The Sustainable Development Index: Measuring the Ecological Efficiency of Human Development in the Anthropocene [PDF] [Website and Full Results]
Ecological Economics, 2020
Degrowth: A Theory of Radical Abundance [PDF] [PDF in Spanish]
Real-World Economics Review 87, 2019
The Contradiction of the Sustainable Development Goals: Growth versus Ecology on a Finite Planet [PDF]
Sustainable Development, 2019
The Imperative of Redistribution in an Age of Ecological Overshoot: Human Rights and Global Inequality
Humanity 10(3), 2019 [PDF]
A Letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) About Global Poverty
Class, Race and Corporate Power 7(1), 2019
Rethinking the Anthropology Conference in an era of Climate Breakdown
Anthropology Today 35(4), 2019
Is it Possible to Achieve a Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries? [PDF]
Third World Quarterly 40(1), 2018
Is Global Inequality Getting Better or Worse? A Critique of the World Bank's Convergence Narrative [PDF]
Third World Quarterly 38(10), 2017
The Development Delusion: Foreign Aid and Inequality
American Affairs 1(3), 2017
The True Extent of Global Poverty and Hunger: Questioning the Good-News Narrative of the Millennium Development Goals [PDF]
Third World Quarterly 37(5), 2016
Hierarchy, Value, and the Value of Hierarchy
With Naomi Haynes
Social Analysis 60(4), 2016
The ‘Girl Effect’: Liberalism, Empowerment, and the Incoherence of Development [PDF]
Third World Quarterly 35(8), 2014
’Xenophobia’ in South Africa: Order, Chaos, and the Moral Economy of Witchcraft [PDF]
Cultural Anthropology 29(1), 2014
The ‘Real’ Experience Industry: Student Development Projects and the Depoliticization of Poverty [PDF]
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences 5(2), 2013
Social Engineering and Revolutionary Consciousness: Domestic Transformations in Colonial South Africa [PDF]
History and Anthropology 23(3), 2012
Neoliberal Plague: The Political Economy of HIV Transmission in Swaziland [PDF]
Journal of Southern African Studies 38(3), 2012
Subaltern Consciousness in South Africa's Labour Movement: 'Workerism' in the KwaZulu-Natal Sugar Industry [PDF]
South African Historical Journal 64(3), 2012
Liberalism and the Politics of Occupy Wall Street
Anthropology of This Century (4), 2012
The Culture of Capitalism and the Crisis of Critique [PDF]
With Arsalan Khan
Anthropological Quarterly 85(1), 2012
Not So Sweet History of Sugar Unions in South Africa [PDF]
South African Labour Bulletin 33(3), 2009
Duration and effect of Single-Dose Atropine (with Robert W. Arnold et al)
Binocular Vision and Strabismus Quarterly 19(2), 2004
Chapters
Toward a Political Anthropology of Hierarchy (with Arsalan Khan) [PDF]
In Hierarchy and Value: Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order, Berghahn, 2018
Hierarchy and Value... with a response to David Graeber (with Naomi Haynes)
In Hierarchy and Value: Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order, Berghahn, 2018
Addressing the Structural Drivers of World Suffering
In Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life, Ronald Anderson, ed. Springer, 2017
International Development
In 2017 Election Manifesto Poverty Audit. London: Academics Stand Against Poverty, 2017
All Change or No Change? Culture, Power, and Activism in an Unquiet World (with Martin Kirk and Joe Brewer)
In State of Power 2017, Transnational Institute, 2017
Neoliberalism and the End of Democracy [PDF]
In The Handbook of Neoliberalism, Simon Springer et al, eds., Routledge, 2016
The Age of Inequality: Causes, Discontents, and a Radical Way Forward (with Alnoor Ladha)
In Inequality, Chris Oestereich, ed., 2016
The Contradictions of Economic Growth in an Era of Ecological Limits
In Engineering a Better World, London: Royal Academy of Engineering, 2016
Afterword (On the Imperative of Deschooling Society) [PDF]
In The Other Hundred Educators, Oneworld Publications, 2016
Beyond Aid
In Political Manifesto Poverty Audit: The Flourishing Life Narrative. Academics Stand Against Poverty, 2015
Aid in Reverse: How Poor Countries Develop Rich Countries
In The Donors' Dilemma: Emergence, Convergence, and the Future of Aid, Andrew Sumner, ed. Global Policy, 2014
On the Politics of Home (with Meghan Healy) [PDF]
In Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014
Engineering the Township Home: Domestic Transformations and Urban Revolutionary Consciousness [PDF]
In Ekhaya: The Politics of Home in KwaZulu-Natal. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2014
Constituting the Commons: Oil and Development in Post-Independence South Sudan [PDF]
In Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World, Karl Widerquist and Mike Howard, eds. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2012
Book reviews
On Durban’s Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labour, by Ralph Callebert
Journal of Southern African Studies 45(1), 2019
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth - and How to Fix it, by Dambisa Moyo
Africa is a Country, 2018
Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma Healing Tradition in South Africa, by Robert Thornton
Journal of Religion in Africa, 47, 2018
The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist, by Sen Morrow
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23(3), 2017
How Soon is Now? From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation, by Daniel Pinchbeck
LSE Review of Books, 2017
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution, by James Ferguson
Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology 26(2), 2016
The Crises of Microcredit, by Isabelle Guerin, Marc Labie, and Jean-Michel Servet, eds.
LSE Review of Books, 2016
Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward, by Alberto Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, and Thomas Pogge, eds.
LSE Review of Books, 2016
Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison, by Peter Geschiere
Journal of Modern African Studies 52(3), 2014
Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty
Global Policy Journal, 2014
The New Extractivism: A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century?” by Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras, eds.
LSE Review of Books, 2014
The South Africa Reader: History, Culture, Politics,” by Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon, eds.
LSE Review of Books, 2014
Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America, by Astra Taylor and Keith Gessen, eds.
LSE Review of Books, 2012
A New Look at African Diaspora Studies,” by Vanessa Valdes, ed.
LSE Review of Books, 2012