Three hundred fifty economists just told the poor to stop waiting for growth. They’re wrong

A recent headline in the Guardian calls for an economic reckoning: “We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy.” More than 350 signatories, including economists Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth, and anthropologist Jason Hickel, have endorsed an over 100-page “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth” that provides a path to end…