Robert Skidelsky on How Much Is Enough?
Channel: TheNexusInstitute
Date: 02/05/2013

What has happened to the ideal of the 'good life' in our time? From an economic point of view, we in the West could have begun living the 'good life' -- filled with health, safety, respect, personal development and leisure -- a long time ago, but we haven't, or not sufficiently. Why not? Are there economic barriers, or are we facing a moral or social deficit? Does thinking about a new economic paradigm amount to dangerous idealism, or is it a much-needed realistic answer to the financial crisis? Should we continue to bank on economic growth, or has it been quite enough, and has the moment come for us to invest our time and efforts more wisely, into a better life? And what political shape should it take?

The lecture by Lord Skidelsky will be published in the Dutch journal Nexus 64.
www.nexus-instituut.nl

28 March 2013, Amsterdam