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GCPH Seminar Series 16, Lecture 3: Beyond surviving to thriving - understanding the ambition of the wellbeing economy agenda
No full textKatherine will outline the story of the growing wellbeing economy movement and explore what a shift to a wellbeing economy entails. She will suggest a wellbeing economy demands a bolder ambition than many social and environmental ideas being offered and will reflect on the scope for the necessary transition to be realised.
Drawing on her most recent book, ‘The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy’ (co-authored with Jeremy Williams), Katherine will ask ‘what do we want from economic growth?’; and ‘what sort of a society are we aiming for?’
She will outline that in everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world’s most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled prosperity: we have ‘arrived’. More than that, through debt, inequality, climate change and fractured politics, the fruits of growth may rot before everyone has a chance to enjoy them. She will argue that it is high time to ask where progress is taking us, and are we nearly there yet? Katherine will propose that the challenge now is to make ourselves at home with this wealth, to ensure, in the interests of equality, that everyone is included and will urge us to move from enlarging the economy to improving it, and the benefits this would bring for all
Construction and development economics - Class Test Revision
No full textConstruction and development economics - Class Test Revisio
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