This is the ninth interview of this season, I had the honour to talk to Dr. Ellie Perkins, Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto. Some of the topics we talked about:
- The importance of economics in human life and its relation with politics.
- Capitalism’s core objectives.
- How markets equilibrate supply and demand, and its impact on equity.
- How classical economics understands “capital, labour and land”.
- The true costs of our economic system.
- How it connects to globalisation, imperialism, and the climate crisis.
- How the pandemic showed some elements of its failures.
- The intervention of economic powers into our governments.
- What is Ecological Economics and what it proposes.
- What adds a Feminist view to Ecological Economics.
- Ecological footprint.
- How to assign value to things and how Ecological Economics deals with it.
- Ecosystem services and “optimal scale”.
- Women’s influence in demographics, labour market and production systems.
- Where wellbeing comes from, and the relation of wellbeing with material input.
- Feminism in economics and intersectionality.
- Lack of trust in government, democracy, equity and justice.
