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Sunday Aug 23, 2020
S01E35 - Jeffrey Sachs on Economics Beyond GDP
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
Sunday Aug 23, 2020
It's high time for economics to overcome its obsession with GDP and move towards better indicators in the pursuit of a general wellbeing, says Jeffrey Sachs, well known economist, director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Professor at Columbia University.
Shownotes
Wiki on Jeffrey Sachs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs?lang=en
Homepage Earth Institute at Columbia University:
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN):
https://www.unsdsn.org/about-us
UN Sustainability Goals:
Wiki Simon Kutznets:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Smith_Kuznets
Varoufakis, Yanis. 2018. Adults in the Room. London: Penguin:
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/books/adults-in-the-room/
More Future Histories episodes on the topic:
S01E31/32 | Future Histories with Daniel Saros on his book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction" (from the introduction):
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This episode has been recorded during the Globart Academy 2019. The opinions articulated are entirely mine.
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