4. Economics provides answers to problems related to markets, efficiency, profits, consumption and economic growth. Does economics do a good job in addressing the other issues people care about: climate change and the wider environment, the role of technology in society, issues of race and class, pandemics, etc.?
Leo Johnson (British. Broadcaster, writer, and noted expert on global megatrends)
Frank Van Gansbeke (Belgian. Business and Finance Professor of the Practice, Middlebury College (US). Forbes online Contributor)
Rym Ayadi (Tunisian. Economist, international Expert on Inclusive and Sustainable Socio-economic Models, Financial Architecture and Stability and Sustainable Finance)
Noam Chomsky (American. Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist)
William Hynes (Irish. Economist, Head of the New Approaches to Economic Challenges Unit (NAEC), OECD)
Ian Hughes (Irish. PhD in atomic physics. Senior Research Fellow at University College Cork)
Penny Mealy (Australian. Economist, Research Fellow, INET, University of Oxford and Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge)
Megan Greene (American. Economist. Global Chief Economist and Senior Fellow · Harvard Kennedy School)
Ricardo Hausmann (Venezuelan. Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School, Director of the Growth Lab)
Ludger Schuknecht (German. Economist, former Chief Economist at the German Ministry of Finance, former Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD)
Richard Bookstaber (American. Economist, author, noted expert in financial risk management)
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