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Dance me to the end of love – an economics for tomorrow
Any economics that defines the time given to human interaction as negative productivity has lost the plot, writes ALAN SIMPSON

IT WAS a message to warm the heart — a daughter thanking the care worker who took the time to dance with her dementia-suffering dad at the end of each home visit. 

Little did she realise that this “thanks” also holds the key to breaking our collective obsession with “growth-based” economics.

Conventional economics describes acts of human kindness in entirely pejorative terms. 

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