From the course: Sustainable Development and Well-Being
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Six sources of well-being
From the course: Sustainable Development and Well-Being
Six sources of well-being
(gentle music) - In this module, I wanted to talk about moving our social, economic, political system from capitalism, global capitalism, to sustainable development. And by that I mean a new set of rules, ideas, ethos that can guide us in the 21st century so that we achieve the basic objective of sustainable development of combining economic wellbeing with social justice and environmental sustainability. There are of course specific policy measures that are important for this change, but I think more broadly, there's a set of ideas and orientations of how the economy operates, how it's understood to fit in with our broader lives that also will be very, very important. And in this module, I want to talk about some of those perhaps more philosophical ideas of how a sustainable development economy will operate in a different manner with different ethics and different operating procedures from an economy based on the…