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:

https://csd.columbia.edu/

UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN):

https://www.unsdsn.org/about-us

UN Sustainability Goals:

https://sdgs.un.org/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):

https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E31---Daniel-E.-Saros-on-Digital-Socialism-and-the-Abolition-of-Capital-(Part-1)-id2228584-id280515245?country=en;

https://castbox.fm/episode/S01E32---Daniel-E.-Saros-on-Digital-Socialism-and-the-Abolition-of-Capital-(Part-2)-id2228584-id286523325?country=us

 

If you like Future Histories, you can support the show on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?

Write me via [email protected] and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):

https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast

or on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/

www.futurehistories.today

This episode has been recorded during the Globart Academy 2019. The opinions articulated are entirely mine.

Episode Keywords:

#Podcast, #FutureHistories, #Interview, #Zukunft, #Future, #GDP, #Sustainability, #Economics, #CalculationDebate, #SocialistCalculationDebate, #GlobartAcademy, #EconomicTheory, #EconomicOfWellbeing, #FutureHistoriesInternational,