Coronavirus pandemic shows it’s time to put people and the planet first

Business as usual is dead. What has shaped economic analysis and policy over the past 40 years has failed us. We need urgent structural, rather than incremental, reform. This sounds obvious and could have been voiced by either a fundamentalist socialist or right-wing populist. But these are declarations from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the club for rich countries, in its latest report “Beyond Growth: Towards a New Economic Approach”. The report was commissioned…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3102853/coronavirus-pandemic-shows-its-time-put-people-and-planet-first