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Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer.
As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the world. Yet this prosperity has come at an enormous price: deepening inequalities, destabilising technologies, environmental destruction and climate change. Confusion reigns. For many, in our era of anaemic economic progress, the worry is slowing growth – in the UK, Europe, China and elsewhere. Others understandably claim, given its costs, that the only way forward is through ‘degrowth’, deliberating shrinking our economies.
At this time of uncertainty about growth and its value, award-winning economist Daniel Susskind has written Growth: A Reckoning and in this talk, with Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, he will argue that we cannot abandon growth but instead we must redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value. He will explore what really drives growth, and offer original ideas for combatting our economic slowdown.
Professor Daniel Susskind
Senior Research Associate, Institute for Ethics in AI
Daniel Susskind is a Research Professor in Economics at King’s College London and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University.
He is the author of A World without Work and co-author of the bestselling The Future of the Professions.
Previously, he worked in the British government, as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Cabinet Office, and at 10 Downing Street.
