Episode 31-Katherine Trebeck on having a Wellbeing Economy

Imagine an economy designed to serve people and planet rather than the other way around. Are there better, more sustainable, ways to run our economy? What kind of counrty do you want to live in? What’s an economy for anyway? These are kind of questions Dr Katherine Trebeck challenges us to ask if we are to have any hope of changing the entrenched neoliberal ideology that is exploiting both our people, our country and our planet in the name of greed.

The economy isn’t something that is fixed and unchangeable. It’s a human creation so we humans can change it if we want to.

That’s why Katherine, political economist,writer and advocate for economic change co-founded The Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WeALL for short) which you can find more about here:

https://weall.org

You can also find our more about Katherine, her work here:

https://katherinetrebeck.com

Her most recent book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy(co-authored with Jeremy Williams and published by Policy Press) was published in January 2019 and her major report Being Bold: Budgeting for Children’s Wellbeingwas launched in March 2021. Her two Tedx talks are about ‘Why the future economy has to be a wellbeing economy’ and ‘a new definition of wealth and prosperity’.

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