Economic growth is often seen as the core ingredient to social development, but it's a relatively new idea. So what did pre-growth society look like and how much growth can modern society sustain? In his latest book, Daniel Susskind argues that economic policy should consider the costs of growth more carefully and realign the drivers to better fit with the challenges of our time. Susskind is a research professor at King's College London and a senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. In this podcast, he says growth doesn't come from the tangible world of things but from the intangible world of ideas. Transcript: https://bit.ly/3yY83aK