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Flourishing-centered Economic Paradigm Passed

Tuesday May 6, 2025 11:15 - 12:00 CEST DEEP DIVES / AUDI I (2nd floor)

Speakers: Achim Steiner, David Sloan Wilson, Melanie Hauenstein, Michael Muthukrishna, Sandrine Dixson-Declève
Moderator: Uwe Jean Heuser

Theme: HUMAN FLOURISHING

Economic success has become disconnected from social and environmental well-being, underscoring the need for a new paradigm that reconnects these dimensions. The flourishing-centered economic paradigm addresses this by embedding economic activity within social, political, and environmental systems. It offers an explanation for how economic prosperity can become decoupled from, and then recoupled with, broader human and planetary flourishing. 

This new economic paradigm provides a framework for designing policies, business practices and institutions that promote flourishing. Flourishing-focused policies aim to redirect the activities of the public and private sectors toward social and environmental success, enabling people to fulfil their potential and the natural world to thrive.

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Speakers

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Achim Steiner Speaker

Administrator
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Virtual Keynote

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David Sloan Wilson Speaker

President
ProSocial World

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Melanie Hauenstein Speaker

Director of the UNDP Germany Representation Office
UNDP

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Michael Muthukrishna Speaker

Professor
London School of Economics (LSE)

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Sandrine Dixson-Declève Speaker

Honorary President, The Club of Rome
Executive Chair, Earth4All

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Uwe Jean Heuser Moderator

World Economic Correspondent
Die ZEIT