The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism hosted Jeffrey Sachs on sustainable development, ecological crises, inequality+Q/A on the weakness of economics in addressing empirics, non-market institutions, technological change, and its own ethical foundations
Austerity
Elliot Kett: A New Film about Low Income Rural Britain
The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]
Geopolitics
Norman Finkelstein – The “ceasefire agreement” between Israel and Gaza
19 January 2025 Following Norman’s comments on the ceasefire, the whole interview can be viewed. It is worth watching the whole video.
Climate Crisis
The Dig: Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Consensus, and today’s Wall Street Consensus.
Explains how our global economic systems link up with the political ones, from the IMF’s structural adjustment to “public-private partnerships” Listen Here
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