The Good Life and productivity
I've been reading How Much is Enough?, a thought-provoking tract for modern times by Skidelsky pere et fils. Robert Skidelsky is an economic historian who has written with massive authority on Keynes and his legacy; Edward is a philosopher. Robert is giving a public lecture tomorrow (25/3) at the Working Mens College, part of an excellent series which the College has been running over past months (declaration of interest: I chair the WMC governing board.) The Skidelskys' challenge is to the dominance of GDP and income as dominant measures of how well we are doing, as individuals and as a society. They make trenchant and, to my mind, effective criticisms…
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