This article will take you through some of the alternative measures of progress that have been put forward by various organisations. They are part of the turning tide against GDP-centric …
Government is in a difficult situation, as previously, social stability has depended on economic stability. This means that governments feel the need to pursue economic growth above all else. However, …
In this video, Marc Stears, Director of the New Economics Foundation, describes his view that economic disempowerment has led to a “crisis in control” whereby a small group make economically-driven …
In this video, Professor Henrietta Moore explains the concept of the democratic deficit, and asks how the way we think about the economy may be linked to the growth of …
In this video, we hear from Kate Raworth – an economist who examines the economic mindset – for the first time in the course. In her 2017 book ‘Doughnut Economics: …
Here we hear from Professor Tim Jackson, one of the pioneers of the prosperity conversation and a key contributor to this course. He wrote Prosperity without Growth, initially published in …
In this video, economist Diane Coyle takes us through the origins of GDP as a measure of economic growth and what this should mean for our assessment of it today. …
Clearly, prosperity means a lot of things to a lot of different people. Our idea of what constitutes a ‘good’ life depends on the life we already lead, our beliefs, …