Season 3, Ep 11: A Wellbeing Economy for All, with Lisa Hough-Stewart and Amanda Janoo

 

The economy is just how we produce and provide for one another. So what if we threw out the old indicators of growth and profit, and instead measured its success by our collective wellbeing?

On this episode of the reMAKERS podcast, we talk with Lisa Hough-Stewart (Implementation Lead) and Amanda Janoo (Economics and Policy Lead) from the global Wellbeing Economy Alliance — about the countries and businesses that are doing just that. 

We learn that the term ‘economy’, and the indicators of GDP, stock market growth and employment, didn’t enter the public discourse until the 1930s, as people tried to grapple with the unemployment and poverty experienced during the Great Depression. 

 Now, nearly 100 years later, we’re still using those same indicators to understand and guide our economy. But the issues that we’re facing today are different: climate change, species extinction, mental health and more. It’s time for a new way of measuring economic success. 

This is an uplifting conversation, where Lisa and Amanda guide us through what a Wellbeing Economy could look like, and how we can build it together.

This episode of the reMAKERS was recorded from the lands of the Gubbi Gubbi people, in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.  We honour the Traditional Owners of these lands and waters, and pay our respect to Elders past and present.


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