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 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


 


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