The Price of Civilization

[Source: The Oxford Martin School on YouTube]

Keynote Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Lecture summary: 'The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity'.

Sachs argues that for the U.S. to regain sound fiscal health the country must also reform its politics. While economic recovery necessitates coming to terms with global realities, America must also rein in lobbyists' power and political spin and limit corporate contributions. Sachs explains why the complexity of the world economy means that the American form of capitalism, with a hands-off government allowing market forces to govern the economic realm, guarantees a future of instability. He tells us why we must agree on a role for government in the equation and reach a consensus on the values that unite us as citizens of the world.

U.S.: The worst income inequality?

[Source: CNN Money]

Interview with Branko Milanović, lead economist in the World Bank's research department and author of "The Haves and the Have-Nots"

Growth Has an Expiration Date

[Source: Compass Summit 2011]

 

Growth Has an Expiration Date from Compass Summit on FORA.tv

Also see: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/growth-has-an-expiration-date/

The Collaborative Consumption Revolution

Why The Collaborative Consumption Revolution Might Be As Significant As The Industrial Revolution

[Source: TechCrunch article]

How economic inequality harms societies

"Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust."

[Source: TED Talks]