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The Reith Lectures: From Covid crisis to renaissance

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Dr Mark Carney

16/12/2020 GMT

From Covid crisis to renaissance

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Dr Mark Carney considers how money has come to rule human values and what to do about it

Dr Mark Carney considers how money has come to rule human values and what to do about it.

Dr Mark Carney observes that the Covid pandemic has forced states to confront how we value health, wealth and opportunity. During the first few months of the crisis, most states chose to value human life more than the economic well-being of the nation-state. But if that seems to be changing how do we assess value in this sense?  Carney elucidates surprising differences in the financial value put on a human life in different nations – and goes on to argue that this reductionist approach fails to take into deeper thinking about the worth of human existence.

(Photo: Outgoing Bank of England governor Mark Carney makes a keynote address at the 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Credit: Tolga Akmen/Getty Images)

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