Ashish Kothari and Kate Raworth participated in a recent panel discussion entitled “How can we build a new economy post-pandemic?” hosted by the Transnational Institute and moderatedby Laura Flanders.
The pandemic should have been a turning point towards a new economy centered around essential workers and essential needs. Instead it has sparked speculative profiteering, a surge in prices for essential goods, the revival of an austerity economics and a disturbing growth in poverty and precarity. What changes are needed to bring back control over food and essential services, to put care rather than greed at the centre of our economy and to protect rather than destroy our environmental life-systems?
