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Modern Economics has undermined People, Civility, Trust, Moral Sentiments, Community, Mother Nature, Beauty, and Humanity
Do you think this typical mainstream economist can have anything to say about Who We Are and What is the Purpose of this Journey We Call Life?
Economics has long been the domain of the privileged few, the so-called ivory tower, where specialised, jargonised language with opaque and impossible to understand theorems has made it inaccessible to people, the people that it claims the economics is for!!
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How to make the world better and more beautiful by making economics better and beautiful
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Poetry
Economics Needs a New Story and New Storytellers
I look forward to a day when students of economics and their teachers are required to study creativity and be inspired by the work of artists, poets, mystics, musicians, sculptors, philosophers, and peacemakers, and thus, bring meaning and purpose into the study of economics. I dream of a time when economic textbooks, as well as addressing how we may manage the economy, would also speak of the need for beauty, intimacy, kindness, empathy, cooperation, enoughness, friendship, fairness, community and love, on who and what we are.
In all, I dream of a day when economics becomes the enabler and the economists as the empowerers of the good life and the good society.
‘We should look beyond economics and open our eyes to beauty.’- Fiona Reynolds, Former Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Director-General of the National Trust.
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Seven years ago, the worst high-rise fire in British history in Grenfell Tower cost the lives of 72 people.
Illustration: Nate Kitch/The Guardian
‘Today’s report should make you angry. People died horribly and futures were wrecked because of ideology, neglect and greed.’
Profit was put ahead of safety, security and people’s lives
What mattered most was the maximisation of profits, minimisation of costs, the highest returns to the shareholders and the most jaw-dropping bonuses for the CEOs, where safety, morality, ethics, kindness, empathy, and concern for humanity and environment meant nothing.
In 2014, the former prime minister, David Cameron, proudly announced that his government had stopped ‘needless health and safety inspections’
Chris Riddell Via The Observer
‘Firms chased profits, ministers sat on their hands, innocents paid with their lives.’
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