LESSON 2

Question 1

FORGET ‘DEVELOPING’ POOR COUNTRIES, IT’S TIME TO ‘DE-DEVELOP’ RICH COUNTRIES

Answer 1

Jason Hickel

Question 2

Growth has been the main object of development for the past __

Answer 2

70 years

Question 3

argues that instead of pushing poorer countries to “catch up” with rich ones, we should be thinking of ways to get rich countries to
“catch down” to more appropriate levels of developmen

Answer 3

Economist Peter Edward

Question 4

insist that all we need is yet more growth

Answer 4

Orthodox economies

Question 5

is a step in the right direction and is growing in popularity, but still doesn’t get the farming right

Answer 5

steady-state economics

Question 6

They use terms such as ___, which are technically because but off-putting for anyone who’s not already on board

Answer 6

de-growth, zero growth or-worst of all-de-development