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Thinking about Inequality and Land Ownership
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In this Episode conversations with Susan Witt and David Fix from the Schumacher Center for a new Economics are explored which focused on the social and economic dimensions of land ownership. The episode moves through a simple and elegant characterization of economics shared by Susan, how to understand what a commodity is and how treating land like a commodity unleashes anti-social dynamics in the economy and drives unjust inequality. This episode shares from one of the conversations taking place as preparation for the upcoming event: “Working for Freedom and the Common Good”, September 19-21 at the Goetheanum, an intergenerational conversation about global economic cooperation and peace 100 years after the first “World Power Conference”.
References:
“Working for Freedom and the Common Good” website: https://www.worldgoetheanum.org/en/wg...
Schumacher Center for a New Economics: https://centerforneweconomics.org/
Rudolf Steiner. Rethinking Economics
Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV.
To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations
40 episodes
Manage episode 452250698 series 3479860
In this Episode conversations with Susan Witt and David Fix from the Schumacher Center for a new Economics are explored which focused on the social and economic dimensions of land ownership. The episode moves through a simple and elegant characterization of economics shared by Susan, how to understand what a commodity is and how treating land like a commodity unleashes anti-social dynamics in the economy and drives unjust inequality. This episode shares from one of the conversations taking place as preparation for the upcoming event: “Working for Freedom and the Common Good”, September 19-21 at the Goetheanum, an intergenerational conversation about global economic cooperation and peace 100 years after the first “World Power Conference”.
References:
“Working for Freedom and the Common Good” website: https://www.worldgoetheanum.org/en/wg...
Schumacher Center for a New Economics: https://centerforneweconomics.org/
Rudolf Steiner. Rethinking Economics
Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV.
To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations
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