Part Three: Once Upon an Economy

This Loving-Kindness-meditation-with-a-twist asks us to generate care for people around us today, and for those in the future who have yet to be born. Co-created by Ella Saltmarshe and Headspace teacher Dora Kamau, who also reads the meditation. Learn more about your ad choices. ...  Show more

How can we do politics with a Long Time lens? So often it feels like our leaders are firmly stuck in the short-term, motivated by getting re-elected every four or five years and the sway of vested interests. In this episode we meet the people changing this both from within govern ...  Show more

On the third and final episode of Planet B, we talk about the economy. We are joined by Fred Joiner, a poet; Keith Hart, an economic anthropologist; Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation; Flora Mile, a sustainability consultant; and Taylor Johnson, ...  Show more

Endless growth may actually be hurting our economy—and our planet. Economist Kate Raworth makes a case for “doughnut economics”: an alternative way to look at the economic systems ruling our societies and imagine a sustainable future for all.We're doing a TED Interview survey! If ...  Show more

Where does wealth come from, who creates it and what destroys it? In this deep dive into global economics, Mariana Mazzucato explains how we lost sight of what value means and why we need to rethink our current financial systems -- so capitalism can be steered toward a bold, inno ...  Show more