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‘Education of the mind without education of the heart is no education at all.’-Aristotle
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Why kindness is the key to a new economy
The world needs kindness; every person, everywhere, needs kindness. Kindness gives Hope and hope gives us life. Kindness connects us and fuels us. Kindness moves us. Kindness keeps us. Kindness grounds us. Kindness protects us. Kindness anchors us. Kindness is what makes us human.
Can we find space for kindness and empathy in our classrooms, teaching and deliberations, against a backdrop of complexities and challenges, where we have allowed compassion, love and kindness to be viewed as luxuries, rather than necessities of life? Can we nudge people to behave altruistically? Can we build a view of society that is built not from the extremes, not from saints and sinners, but through the everyday kindness of action, by state, by organisations, businesses and the individuals? Can greed be transformed into generosity, selfishness to selflessness, hatred to kindness,...,? Can we alter policies and practices to make the world a kinder place? Can we all come together and in the interest of the common good, begin to imagine a different world, a kinder world?
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Modern Economics has undermined People, Civility, Trust, Moral Sentiments, Community, Mother Nature, Beauty, and Humanity
Do you think this typical mainstream economist can have anything to say about Who We Are and What is the Purpose of this Journey We Call Life?
Economics has long been the domain of the privileged few, the so-called ivory tower, where specialised, jargonised language with opaque and impossible to understand theorems has made it inaccessible to people, the people that it claims the economics is for!!
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How to make the world better and more beautiful by making economics better and beautiful
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Poetry
Economics Needs a New Story and New Storytellers
I look forward to a day when students of economics and their teachers are required to study creativity and be inspired by the work of artists, poets, mystics, musicians, sculptors, philosophers, and peacemakers, and thus, bring meaning and purpose into the study of economics. I dream of a time when economic textbooks, as well as addressing how we may manage the economy, would also speak of the need for beauty, intimacy, kindness, empathy, cooperation, enoughness, friendship, fairness, community and love, on who and what we are.
In all, I dream of a day when economics becomes the enabler and the economists as the empowerers of the good life and the good society.
‘We should look beyond economics and open our eyes to beauty.’- Fiona Reynolds, Former Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Director-General of the National Trust.
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