Teenage student explains how young people are taking action on Global Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Short animation explaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth for teenage students

Short animation explaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth for younger students

Young student explains how young people are taking action on Global Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

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INET President Rob Johnson talks with Michael Sandel about the consequences of financialization, and how economics' obsession with self-interest has failed society.

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A former diplomat and science fiction editor, among other more exotic jobs, Bruno della Chiesa is a linguist trained at the Universities of Bonn and Paris Sorbonne, where he earned a D.E.a. in 1989. After France (60s-70s) and...