Going underground – E1061

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/537311-us-policy-towards-afghanistan/

In the second half of the show Prof. Tim Jackson, author of ‘Post-Growth: Life After Capitalism’, discusses why the GDP metric is deeply flawed in measuring the health and quality of an economy and society, the trend of decline of economic growth in Western economies such as the UK, his arguments for a radically different labour culture in which production is slowed down and lessened, the myth of ‘more is better’ that the obsession with GDP has created, the negative social impacts stemming from governments’ plans for constant economic growth, Boris Johnson’s comments that capitalism has been key in the UK’s coronavirus response and vaccine rollout, and much more!

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