In this program, Hazel Henderson and Paul Ellis discuss their work in reforming mainstream finance and how these obsolete models and metrics had been steering societies toward unanticipated environmental and social problems. Money-based Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was never intended to be a measure of human progress, while over averaged macroeconomic indicators of inflation, unemployment, savings, etc. were like flying over a country at 50,000 feet. In 2015, 195 member countries of the United Nations launched their Sustainable Development goals (SDGs), systemically based in metrics of empirical sciences. They now steer the world countries toward knowledge-richer, inclusive sustainable societies for our common human future.
