Author: Jess Blijkers

• “Do they know that GDP is all?” and other capitalist hits

  Published on Linked in on January 20, 2025 Many of us think we do not understand much about “the Economy”. So we hear certain stories, over and over again, our…

  

• Why isn’t the Global South speaking up?

  I wrote a piece a few weeks ago reviewing Jason Hickel’s The Divide, that explains the ways in which our economic system is rigged against the Global South, and that…

  

• My “Sliding Doors” Book: the Divide

  Do you remember the film with Gwyneth Paltrow where we see the different path her life would have taken, if she had not missed her train? I bought The Divide…