We don’t make anything anymore! | Imperial Festival 2017
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Channel: Imperial College London · 2017 · Science & Technology
Professor Jonathan Haskel How often do we hear this complaint directed at our modern economy where regenerated factories that once produced cars, ships and steal are commonly filled with designers, marketing professionals and ideas people who make…well nothing. But is this a bad thing? And if so why? Jonathan Haskel has been investigating this revolutionary industrial shift for a new book “Capitalism without the Capital”. In a sneak preview he will explore the true impact of the emergence of our ideas economy - from prompting inequality, as wealth concentrates in firms with high profits but low numbers of workers, to underpinning our cultural demand for city living, where ideas people strive to live near and learn from others like them.
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