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  "path": "/2026/06/12/pikettys-eco-marxist-utopia-why-degrowth-and-global-redistribution-will-trap-the-poor-in-poverty/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-12T21:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Climate Economics",
    "Commentary",
    "Marxist Economics",
    "Neo-Malthusianism",
    "Thomas Piketty",
    "Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia: Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty",
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  "textContent": "The world's poor deserve better than another utopia designed for them by the globalist intelligentsia. They deserve cheap energy, open markets, secure property rights, and the freedom to industrialise on terms they choose for themselves. That is what worked in East Asia. It is what will work in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. And it is precisely what the Global Justice Report, for all its mathematical sophistication, conspicuously fails to offer.\n\nThe post Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia: Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty appeared first on Watts Up With That?.",
  "title": "Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia: Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty"
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