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May 2024
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How can macroeconomics answer the call f...

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION
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In this Future of Work podcast, the ILO’s Richard Samans and economic historian Lord Robert Skidelsky discuss how we can begin to transform macroeconomics to deal more effectively with ongoing challenges to social justice, such as inequality, underemployment, precarity and environmental degradation. 
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