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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Does Growth Matter?
Description: The rate of social and technological change in the 20th century was unarguably frenetic. A key measure used by politicians, economists and journalists in that time has been GDP growth. But is Growth as a pointer still fit for purpose? And should all countries still aspire to achieve growth? Is the world on a longer-term slowdown? Would that be a bad thing? And as the shock of coronavirus echoes through communities and economies around the world, will our conceptions of value and cost be redefined?Anne McElvoy discusses economic futures, with Danny Dorling, demographer, writer, professor of...