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.?
🔺Anat Ruth Admati (Israeli. George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business) 🔺Yanis Varoufakis (Greek. Economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor) 🔺Barry Eichengreen (American. George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley) 🔺Angus Armstrong (British. Economist, Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics, Senior Fellow and Professor) 🔺Ann Pettifor (South African-British. Economist, adviser, author. Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)) 🔺Andrew S. Nevin (Canadian. Economist, Advisory Partner and Chief Economist at PwC Nigeria, working at the nexus of economics, strategy, and regulation) 🔺Matheus Grasselli (Brazilian-Canadian. Professor of Financial Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics of Statistics Department at McMaster University) 🔺Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Brazilian. Philosopher, former Cabinet Minister – he was the first Minister for Strategic Affairs in Brazil from 2007–2009) 🔺Sheila Lawlor (British. Academic Historian, Author, Founder of UK-based Politeia) 🔺Barry C. Lynn (American. Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute in Washington, author) Harris Eyre (Australian. Neuroscientist, entrepreneur and author)
Age of Economics: in the first part of this project a diverse group of global thinkers answers 8 fundamental questions about economics and capitalist civilization. ►Website 👉https://www.ageofeconomics.org ►Youtube channel👉https://www.youtube.com/c/AgeofEconomics ►Twitter 👉https://twitter.com/AgeofEconomics ►Facebook 👉https://www.facebook.com/ageofeconomics
Video by Fabio Dondero – Music: J.S. Bach, from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Kimiko Ishizaka, piano