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Our democratic future: The future of prosperity
Can we continue to grow our economies without despoiling the earth?
Can we continue to grow our economies without despoiling the earth? Focusing on the existential threats created by our own innovation, from climate change to out-of-control artificial intelligence, the final lecture asks whether our politics is up to the task of supporting sustainable growth. It concludes by showing that the political lessons of past technological revolutions provide important lessons for today's challenges
The series is delivered by Ben Ansell, professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University.
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The Reith Lectures on Radio 4
Archive recordings from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's flagship annual lecture series going back to 1948