Yanis Varoufakis - Economics and the wider environment

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.?

Age of Economics: in the first part of this project a diverse group of global thinkers answers 8 fundamental questions about economics and capitalist civilization.

0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Start interview

Interview by Fabio Dondero and Julian Karaguesian

Music: J.S. Bach, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Praeludium 18 in G-sharp minor, BWV 863. Kimiko Ishizaka, piano

[Rnankn]

Economics is a utopian political theory with the validity and legitimacy of Catholicism during the reformation.

[haydenwalton]

they don't call it the dismal science for nothing !