An Evolutionary Economic Paradigm, with David Sloan Wilson
Musing Mind Podcast
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What Is Well-Being?
I want to focus a little on how you work with the question of what well-being is within this framework. I think coming from evolutionary science you can bring a lot to this and at heart it seems like well-being in the multi-level paradigm is an irreducibly multifaceted thing. Progress should be assessed not just in terms of economic growth but also in terms of meeting our needs for empowerment, social solidarity and sustainability. We always have to be asking at any level what's best for us but also is that causing harm elsewhere in the system so we must be having some sense of systemic welfare which coordinates what takes place at lower scales.
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