Esther Duflo
How Inequality Fuels the Climate Crisis
Talking on Water
Boston/Paris
Esther Duflo is an economist, who is teaching at College de France in Paris and at Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019 she received the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on poverty together with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer. She founded and co-chairs the Poverty Action Lab where new approaches to the alleviation of poverty are being developed. In «Good Economics for Hard Times» she addresses key challenges of todays societies. Esther Duflo is interested in making economic knowledge accessible and most recently published «poor economics for kids» a series of 10 illustrated books of stories to explain poverty to children in Englisch and French.
Time and again, Esther Duflo is confronted with the fact that the consequences of climate change are already being felt dramatically in the poorest countries during her research. Even today, people are dying every day as a result of changes in their living conditions. This has led her to consider how global redistribution could make it possible to have enough money available to mitigate the consequences of climate change and prevent worse from happening. She recently presented this concept of a global tax in Nairobi and will present it in Zurich on Sunday.
Dates and Tickets
shows from today- Su 24.08. 16:00 - 17:30 Admission free
Artistic direction and cast
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