Free thinking: does growth matter?

McElvoy, Anne, Dorling, Danny, Davies, Richard ORCID: 0009-0008-7027-8047 and Barton, Petr (2020) Free thinking: does growth matter? BBC Radio 3.

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Abstract

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?

Item Type:	Audio/visual resource
Official URL:	https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0144txn
Additional Information:	© 2020 BBC
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance
Date Deposited:	07 May 2020 12:54
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 00:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104280

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