ARCHIVE: Post-Capitalism-The Toxic Obsession With GDP & End of Constant Economic Growth

ARCHIVE: Post-Capitalism-The Toxic Obsession With GDP & End of Constant Economic Growth

ARCHIVE: 13/10/2021.

We speak to Prof. Tim Jackson, author of ‘Post-Growth: Life After Capitalism’.

He discusses why the GDP metric is deeply flawed in measuring the health and quality of an economy and society, the trend of decline of economic growth in Western economies such as the UK, his arguments for a radically different labour culture in which production is slowed down and lessened, the myth of ‘more is better’ that the obsession with GDP has created, the negative social impacts stemming from governments’ plans for constant economic growth, Boris Johnson’s comments that breed and capitalism have been the key for the UK’s Coronavirus response and vaccine rollout and much more!