Symposium engages scholars to explore climate change, global poverty, and economic strategies, suggesting new solutions.
In this new special Symposium edition of our podcast series Planetary Choices: Global Governance Beyond Neo-Liberalism, we engage with Dani Rodrik’s new book, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate, alongside a panel of leading scholars: Jayati Ghosh and Marcel Fratzscher. How can we simultaneously address climate change, restore the middle class, and reduce global poverty, without sacrificing one for the other? Is the Keynesian social-democratic settlement truly exhausted, and if so, what comes next? And how do local and national strategies succeed where global governance has failed? Our guests unpack these questions, debate the trade-offs and synergies at the heart of Rodrik’s “productivist” vision, and offer fresh perspectives on industrial policy, the future of democracy, and what a genuinely inclusive global economy might look like.
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