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  1. LSE Public Lecture | How Much is Enough? Work, Money and the Good Life

    Speaker(s): Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky, Dr Maurice Glasman
    Chair: Dr Jonathan Leape

    Recorded on 4 July 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.

    Why do we work almost as hard as we did 40 years ago, despite being on average twice as rich? Robert Skidelsky suggests an escape from the work and consumption treadmill.

    This event marks the publication of Robert and Edward Skidelsky’s new book How Much is Enough? The Economics of the Good Life.

    Dr Maurice Glasman is a reader in political theory at London Metropolitan University, author of Unnecessary Suffering and a Labour Peer.

    Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, and he recently published Keynes: The Return of the Master.

    http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1533

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  2. The Information Bingers - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    We often hear the term ‘information overload’ but is it a case of over-consumption as much as filter failure? There’s a school of thought that says we now take in information in the same way we consume fast food—without control or moderation.

    Guests:
    Ann Blair, Harvard College Professor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History.

    Clay Johnson, Author of The Information Diet and co-founder of Blue State Digital.

    Robert Hillard, Partner at Deloitte Enterprise Information Management, National Leader of Technology Consulting & author of the ‘Information Driven Business’.

    Caroline Webb, Partner and Leadership Coach at Mckinsey and Company (London).

    Publications:
    Title: The Information Diet
    Author: Clay Johnson
    Publisher: O’Reilly Media

    Title: The Information Driven Business
    Author: Robert Hillard
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

    Further Information:
    The Information Diet (http://www.informationdiet.com/)

    Robert Hillard’s blog (http://www.infodrivenbusiness.com/blog.php)

    Mckinsey article: Recovering from information overload (http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Recovering_from_information_overload_2735)

    Ann Blair’s profile (http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/blair.php)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-information-bingers/3821102

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  3. Freakonomics » Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You’re Driving?

    Conspicuous conservation is the theme of our latest podcast, called “Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You’re Driving?” It centers around a paper by Alison and Steve Sexton, a pair of Ph.D. economics candidates (who happen to be twins, and who happen to have economist parents), called “Conspicuous Conservation: The Prius Effect and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Bona Fides.”

    Includes an appearance by Tim Harford.

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  4. Rethinking economic assumptions - RN Future Tense - 19 May 2011

    Stagnation, consumption and the value of profit above social capital. Three thinkers question some of the orthodoxies around our economic future.

    Guests:

    Umair Haque Director of the Havas Media Lab and author of The New Capitalist Manifesto.

    Tyler Cowen Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Author of The Great Stagnation.

    Chandran Nair Founder of the Global Institute For Tomorrow. Author of Consumptionomics.

    Further Information:

    Umair Haque’s Harvard Business Review blog

    Global Institute For Tomorrow

    Marginal Revolution - Tyler Cowen’s blog

    Link to Stan Correy’s Background Briefing story - ‘Digital revolutionaries under surveillance’ (http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3212869.htm)

    Publications:

    Title: The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business Author: Umair Haque Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

    Title: Consumptionomics: Asia’s role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet Author: Chandran Nair Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

    Title: The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick and Will (Eventually) Feel Better Author: Tyler Cowen Publisher: e-book (see URL above) URL: http://mercatus.org/greatstagnation

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2011/3216533.htm

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  5. Chandran Nair - RSA - Constraining Consumption

    Chandran Nair argues that the Western model of consumption-led economic growth cannot be replicated in Asia. This statement is not new, but Chandran Nair offers a new perspective from the Asian point of view.

    If the global community is serious about lessening the impact of global capitalism on the world’s resources, then the role of the region with the largest populations on Earth must take centre stage.

    In his new book, Consumptionomics: Asia’s role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet, Chandran Nair argues that economic policy must change. The alternative is a catastrophic outcome arising from relentless promotion of a consumption-led growth model in the world’s most populous regions, at a time where resource constraints are a major issue.

    Join Chandran Nair at the RSA as he calls for bans in key areas of consumption, the repricing of resources, and argues that the state must play a major role in achieving this.

    Chair: Sir Crispin Tickell, director of the policy foresight programme, James Martin Institute, University of Oxford and former chair of The British Government Panel on Sustainable Development.

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/constraining-consumption

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  6. How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick : NPR

    Physician Kevin Patterson has treated patients in the Arctic, in Kandahar and on remote Pacific Islands. He says that Western ideas and the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick

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  7. 99% invisible 11: 99% undesigned (but still evil)

    Almost everything in modern life is designed to waste energy. The whole system evolved on a false premise that petroleum is cheap and plentiful and will be that way forever. The awesome Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on The Brain and a fellow at the New America Foundation, talks us through the design of a world that completely disregards the perils of oil consumption and how new designs are meant to make us all more content with the mess we’ve made.

    From http://invisible99.podbean.com/2010/11/24/99-invisible-11-99-undesigned/

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  8. Mark Bittman | The Food Matters Cookbook: Lose Weight and Heal the Planet with More Than 500 Recipes

    Mark Bittman is one of the country’s foremost food writers, author of "The Minimalist" food column for The New York Times and of multiple James Beard Award and IACP/Julia Child Award-winning cookbooks, including How to Cook Everything. Selling more than a million copies, the book was described by a Washington Post reviewer as "the new, hip Joy of Cooking." Bittman also appears regularly on NBC’s Today Show and NPR’s All Things Considered, and has hosted three public television series. His latest cookbook is a follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, offering recipes that are both healthier for you and for the environment.

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  9. Cities, Design and Climate Change

    With cities contributing upwards of 75 per cent of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world’s cities. Saskia Sassen is Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at LSE and NYU. Jonathon Porritti s the chair of the sustainable development commission and founder and director of Forum for the Future.

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  10. Bruce Sterling at Reboot 11

    Bruce Sterling - reboot 11 closing talk On Favela Chic, Gothic High Tech and where we are heading

    http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11

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