Economic growth: When impotent daydreams meet noxious nightmares...

Friday, 30 August 2019 - 10:00am to 10:30am

In recent times the Morrison Government's credentials for managing the economy  have come into question with the slowing of its growth. This program looks at how we measure economic growth and what it means. Is continual economic growth even possible or desirable? And who and what are the winners and losers of all that presumed growth...?

Refs:

Raworth, K. Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like a 21st century economist.  London: Cornerstone.

Stiglitz, J.E. (2019) People, power and profits: Progressive capitalism for an age of discontent. UK: Allen Lane.

Social and Solidarity Economy Is There a New Economy in the Making? Peter Utting, Nadine van Dijk and Marie-Adélaïde Matheï
Friday 10:00am to 10:30am
Think Again offers weekly conversations and reflections about current events, trends and public pronouncements on contemporary and emerging issues. The show moves beyond what we read and hear via the public and ‘social’ media, to invite alternative possibilities to guide our thinking, living and organising.

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Jennifer Borrell & Jacques Boulet

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