Misguided development? Thomas Palley, Founder of Economics for Democratic & Open Societies

As the popular saying goes, ‘you can never get enough of what you don’t need,’ but that doesn’t stop people and whole nations from trying to get more. Both the modern economy and today’s politics are predicated on goals and objectives that have little to do with a meaningful or balanced life, quite the contrary – they manufacture dependencies and conflict as ways of sustaining themselves. Can that be changed and, if so, by whom? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Thomas Palley, an American economist, author of several books and founder of Economics for Democratic and Open Societies.