4. Economics provides answers to problems related to markets, efficiency, profits, consumption and economic growth. Does economics do a good job in addressing the other issues people care about: climate change and the wider environment, the role of technology in society, issues of race and class, pandemics, etc.?
Anat Ruth Admati (Israeli. George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business) Yanis Varoufakis (Greek. Economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor) Barry Eichengreen (American. George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley) Angus Armstrong (British. Economist, Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics, Senior Fellow and Professor) Ann Pettifor (South African-British. Economist, adviser, author. Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME)) Andrew S. Nevin (Canadian. Economist, Advisory Partner and Chief Economist at PwC Nigeria, working at the nexus of economics, strategy, and regulation) Matheus Grasselli (Brazilian-Canadian. Professor of Financial Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics of Statistics Department at McMaster University) Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Brazilian. Philosopher, former Cabinet Minister – he was the first Minister for Strategic Affairs in Brazil from 2007–2009) Sheila Lawlor (British. Academic Historian, Author, Founder of UK-based Politeia) Barry C. Lynn (American. Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute in Washington, author) Harris Eyre (Australian. Neuroscientist, entrepreneur and author)
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