Traditional economics don’t attribute worth to human interactions that give our lives meaning. In Buddhist Economics, U.C. Berkeley professor Clair Brown advocates a fresh approach to organising the economy.
Brisbane Writers Festival 2017
Presented by The Guardian
Buddhist Economics
Clair Brown
Clair Brown is Professor of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Clair works on how our economic system can provide a comfortable, meaningful life to all people in a sustainable world. Her graduate students in Development Engineering work on technologies to improve people’s lives in low-income regions. Her undergraduate students apply Buddhist economics to evaluate financial risk of fossil fuel companies in order to push for fossil-free public pension portfolios. Read about Clair’s life and work in Eminent Economics II (Szenberg and Ramrattan, eds, Cambridge U Press). The Labor and Employment Research Association honored Clair with their Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to improving workers’ lives. She practices Tibetan Buddhism.
Greg Jericho
After completing his PhD in English Literature at James Cook University in 2005, Greg moved to Canberra in 2006 to work in the public service. He began pseudonymously writing a blog Grog’s Gamut in 2008, which came to national prominence during the 2010 election campaign when his criticism of the media coverage was debated across media organisations and caused a change in the ABC’s coverage. After the election he was outed as the writer of the blog by The Australian. In 2011 he left the public service to work as a researcher on the first series of The Chaser’s Hamster Wheel. He also wrote a book on blogging in Australian politics, The Rise of the Fifth Estate, which was published by Scribe in 2012. Greg currently writes on economics and politics for Guardian Australia, and in 2016 he won the Walkley Award for Best Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique.