2023-02-02
41 分钟The economist Kate Raworth says the aggressive pursuit of G.D.P. is trashing the planet and shortchanging too many people. She has proposed an alternative — and the city of Amsterdam is giving it a try. How's it going?
Hey there, podcast listeners.
In our last two episodes, we talked about the economic impact of the private equity industry, which has been rolling up small businesses into conglomerates and loading up established companies with debt.
Sometimes this has positive consequences and sometimes negative.
The main question we've been asking is whether private equity investors are just extracting value or growing the pie.
But what if that's the wrong question to ask?
A couple years ago, in the early months of the COVID pandemic, a lot of people were rethinking the very model of a modern major economy.
And we talked to some of these people for an episode called is economic growth the wrong goal?
We are revisiting that episode today with some updated information.
I hope you enjoy it.
I grew up on the outskirts of London.
My mum is a florist.
My dad was a businessman.
I didn't really know much about that.
That's Kate Raworth.
I am a renegade economist passionate about rewriting economics.
It needs to be rewritten.
Let's do it.
Raworth teaches at Oxford University's environmental Change Institute.
She admits that as a kid, she was a bit sheltered.
I led a, you know, happy, pretty innocent life, saw the world on the tv news, and it was much bigger than the world I lived in.