Political-economist eyes on more humane economies & how they might just be built. Writer-at-large @UoE_EFI #WellbeingEconomy Allegedly dubious music taste katherinetrebeck.com linkedin.com/in/ktrebeck123https://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lx6zapbxxs2pThis, from @richarddenniss.bsky.social, is one of the best reviews of the #EconomicReformRoundtable. A breath of fresh critical air amidst the group think. https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/08/23/economic-round-table-recycles-broken-ideas25 Aug 2025 03:03 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx6zapbxxs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lurwaorfj22sCan we please take climate breakdown seriously now....? "Santa feels the heat as Lapland buckles in Finland's record-breaking heatwave"- BBC "for the 14th day in a row a temp of 30C was measured somewhere in Finland - 1st time since records began" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0ql98x1nvo?app-referrer=push-notification25 Jul 2025 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lurwaorfj22shttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lsx7en6l4c2wEconomists influence policy makers, but not all are equally influential: "Economists shape policy on trade, taxation, regulation &economic stability...mainstream economic expertise influences governments around the world..dominate central banks &multilateral institutions" https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2025/06/point-of-view-reclaiming-a-policy-role-for-economists-karen-dynan02 Jul 2025 02:51 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsx7en6l4c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lspqabg5uc22“The government is approving projects such that regular people like me have to pay the cost" BSCA member Angela Frimberger on the recent spate of fossil fuels developments in https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/06/labor-accused-of-gaslighting-australians-on-climate-crisis-as-fossil-fuel-projects-keep-getting-approved?CMP=share_btn_url29 Jun 2025 03:31 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lspqabg5uc22https://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lskieqhhw22g“The algorithm does not understand labour rights” Great piece on the gig economy: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/gigification-the-future-of-work/ #WellbeingEconomy27 Jun 2025 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lskieqhhw22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lsf7wu3o5s2zThe Wheelton lecture I did for Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLbLgRPZ6m4 #WellbeingEconomy #SystemChange #UpstreamChange #SystemCompliantFixes #Assetocracy #PseudoSatisfiers24 Jun 2025 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsf7wu3o5s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lsbcaha2rk2tMy hiding-in-a-quiet-corner-of-the-Nash-for-an-interview-about-Scotland's-#WellbeingEconomy-efforts face. Scrawled notes are as high tech as I get... It's at 2 hours 3mins here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/vic-statewide-drive/drive/10543971623 Jun 2025 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbcaha2rk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lrm36x3qak2uDaniel Wortel-London, Ph.D. is a deep thinker with eyes on some of the most important questions. When he publishes a book (with such a punchy title!) it is worth taking a look at: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247855479.html14 Jun 2025 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrm36x3qak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lr7m5dpay22tA little briefing paper that lays out many of the reasons why I keep talking about the need to go upstream to the workings of the economy, and some ideas about what could be better: https://nexteconomy.com.au/work/heading-upstream-towards-a-wellbeing-economy/10 Jun 2025 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr7m5dpay22thttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lqrnmklfqs2tPrevailing economic systems undermine the best of our values in "yet another instance of individualisation; when it is economic systems that are kicking against the best of people’s values and traits. It is an example of putting the onus on individuals" https://efi.ed.ac.uk/systems-working-against-each-other/04 Jun 2025 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrnmklfqs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lqlha2gzo22u"Across numerous governments today, post-Cold War neoliberal model, once promising prosperity & material well-being, but delivering only minimal social rights, is failing to meet demands...The social contract lies profoundly broken..this is a structural problem" https://www.socialeurope.eu/portugals-political-earthquake-centrist-grip-crumbles-right-ascends01 Jun 2025 23:49 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqlha2gzo22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/katherinetrebeck.bsky.social/post/3lqiozw4zqs2sThis week, I delivered the first Wheelton Family Oration for the wonderful LMCF. It’s been recorded and will be shared soon, but in the meantime, and for the TLDR (or TL Won’t Watch 🙂 ) here are a few of the key points: katherinetrebeck.com/wheelton/ #upstreamchange #wellbeingeconomy https://katherinetrebeck.com/wheelton/31 May 2025 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:tkf7mf3zaddabyf4unkss44t/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqiozw4zqs2s