(Just FYI, I automatically downvote links that have no context or description.)
"Jancovici : Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time?"
08/01/2018
Jean-Marc Jancovici
Jancovici's conference in ENS School of Paris - 08/01/2018
> The depletion of natural resources, with oil to start with, and the need for a stable climate, will make it harder and harder to pursue economic growth as we know it. It has now become urgent to develop a new branch of economics which does not rely on the unrealistic assumption of a perpetual GDP increase. In this Colloquium, I will discuss a "physical" approach to economics which aims at understanding and managing the scaling back of our world economy. Biography : Jean-Marc Jancovici, is a French engineer who graduated from École Polytechnique and Télécom, and who specializes in energy-climate subjects. He is a consultant, teacher, lecturer, author of books and columnist. He is known for his outreach work on climate change and the energy crisis. He is co-founder of the organization "Carbone 4" and president of the think tank "The Shift Project".
Adding a title and description would have helped tremendously though.
Paraphrasing lightly from the intro:
"I decided to talk on something which is not generally studied, the link between economics and physics. The conclusion I will lead you to is that when you put physics in economics, you end up with results which are not easy to sell in an election.... The UN tells us that we can have everything at once in their development goals.... The short answer is no, we can't, so we can all go out and have a beer."
