S01E35 - Jeffrey Sachs on Economics Beyond GDP
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 Sachshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs
- Jeffrey Sachs on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/jeffdsachs?lang=en
- Homepage Earth Institute at Columbia Universityhttps://csd.columbia.edu/
- UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)https://www.unsdsn.org/about-us
- UN Sustainability Goalshttps://sdgs.un.org/goals
- Wiki Simon Kutznetshttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Smith_Kuznets
- Episodes 31 & 32 of Future Histories with Daniel Saros on his book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction" (from the introduction)Ep.31:https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E31---Daniel-E.-Saros-on-Digital-Socialism-and-the-Abolition-of-Capital-(Part-1)-id2228584-id280515245?country=enhttps://castbox.fm/episode/S01E32---Daniel-E.-Saros-on-Digital-Socialism-and-the-Abolition-of-Capital-(Part-2)-id2228584-id286523325?country=us
- Book "Adults in the Room" by Yanis Varoufakishttps://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/books/adults-in-the-room/
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www.futurehistories.todayThis episode has been recorded during the Globart Academy 2019. The opinions articulated are entirely mine.
