Episode 8: The Global Economy

The Lucky Country

It's easy to convince yourself, or be convinced by others, that the decisions we make as individuals or at a community level don't really matter when there are 7.5 billion other people on the planet and a global economy worth more than $100 trillion per year. But what if I told you there was no such thing as the "global economy"? We're often made to feel as if the global economy shapes us; in reality, we get to shape it every time we take a job, quit a job, spend a dollar, invest a dollar, or decide to keep chickens rather than buy eggs. Not everyone has the same capacity to shape the global economy, but everyone's decisions count. This week, Richard Denniss talks to broadcaster Indira Naidoo about how the community garden is an act of political rebellion, and ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr about making coalition governments work.

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