James Fransham

We are rightly concerned about the misuse of our personal data, but data science and the tracking of data reveal crucial information about the impacts of change on people, as the COVID-19 pandemic uncovered. Health and well-being must also be seen beyond the medical point of view - the space we live in has a strong impact on us, as shown in our Festival exhibition Mapping People and Change.

Growth, poverty and what policy-makers should do about them were central themes for day two of this year’s Bristol Festival of Economics. The first session was a discussion with the authors of two recent books about economic growth. The first – Growth: a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind, an economist and philosopher at the London School of Economics – takes a critical look at growth and asks how it can be made more equitable, for both people and the planet. The second book – Great Britain?