Is growth the best approach to maximizing the good we can do? What is the effect on the environment? How much consumption is too much? Where does this leave future generations?
What if instead low income countries were granted debt relief, so their policies were not driven by creditors? What about a global minimum wage? Or tax justice, like a universal minimum corporate tax? And what to do about climate reparations?
These ideas are not my own, they are from this podcast:
Much of the challenge of measuring growth is it occurs as a country-level analysis, where the growth of global north rich countries in the last two centuries was at least partially gained on the resources and human capital of the global south, and continues, so similar growth cannot be replicated.
Therefore I would wonder if global governance policy is an important and neglected area to be considered? (I will allow that tractability may be the roadblock).
I would therefore also wonder about the EA response to “poor countries don’t need charity, they need justice”?
Is growth the best approach to maximizing the good we can do? What is the effect on the environment? How much consumption is too much? Where does this leave future generations?
What if instead low income countries were granted debt relief, so their policies were not driven by creditors? What about a global minimum wage? Or tax justice, like a universal minimum corporate tax? And what to do about climate reparations?
These ideas are not my own, they are from this podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-58-the-neoliberal-optimism-industry
Much of the challenge of measuring growth is it occurs as a country-level analysis, where the growth of global north rich countries in the last two centuries was at least partially gained on the resources and human capital of the global south, and continues, so similar growth cannot be replicated.
Therefore I would wonder if global governance policy is an important and neglected area to be considered? (I will allow that tractability may be the roadblock).
I would therefore also wonder about the EA response to “poor countries don’t need charity, they need justice”?