2026-06-16
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Hello and welcome everyone.
Welcome to the LSE for tonight's event on the second day of the LSE Festival, How to Save the Planet,
which is taking place this week from Monday the 15th to Saturday the 20th of June.
My name is Imogen, and I'm a Policy Fellow at LSE Cities,
a research centre investigating the complexities of the 21st century city.
I am very pleased to be here to welcome you all to our screening of The Cost of Growth.
We're especially happy to have Lena Hartog, co-producer of the film,
and Dr Fred Basso, Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the LSE, joining us for a Q&A afterwards.
I'll start us off with a few words of introduction just to give you a bit of context
on why we wanted to bring this film to the festival.
Admittedly, LSE is not always thought of as a place for radical rethinking of the economy,
despite its socialist roots and its long history of left-wing and anti-colonial movements.
Today, many of our most prominent institutes
and academics work closely with governments in the UK and around the world to promote the economic status quo.
Most recently, LSE has been helping the current UK Labour
government to deliver on its primary mission to kickstart economic growth.
And funding calls here still treat economic growth as a goal.
Our students' curricula rarely touch on heterodox economics.