Podcast appearances and mentions of Lorenzo Fioramonti

How do we shift from an obsession with economic growth to a focus on human and planetary wellbeing? On this episode of The Sustainability Journey, we speak with Lorenzo Fioramonti, former Italian Minister of Education and Academic Director at Nativa Campus. Lorenzo introduces the concept of a wellbeing economy, where development is measured by its impact on quality of life, not consumption. Drawing from examples like New Zealand's wellbeing budget, Lorenzo highlights the policies, education reforms, and business innovations needed to create a sustainable and just future. With thought-provoking insights such as "We need to build an economy that improves quality of life within planetary boundaries," this episode offers a roadmap for change.    

Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst economic crisis since its independence. Many businesses are feeling the impact, including one most crucial to the country's economy: the tea industry. The chairman of Sri Lanka's Tea Board, Niraj De Mel, tells us what it's like to do business in Sri Lanka now. Italy's government has survived a crucial vote on an aid package for families and businesses worth 23 billion euros. Independent Italian MP, Lorenzo Fioramonti, gives his analysis of the situation. Weightlifting won´t feature in the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Ashish Sharma has been speaking to Florian Sperl, president of the German Weightlifting Federation, about what the financial implications are for the sport if it loses the funding it gets for being on the Olympic agenda. Neybert Rugadya is a business journalist in Kampala. He explains how the rising cost of fuel is causing problems across the economy. The BBC's Patience Atuhaire travelled to a small island in Lake Victoria in Uganda's Kalangala district to meet some of the oil palm farmers who are finding themselves better off amidst the cost of living crisis. (Picture: Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka, outside the Sri Lankan embassy in New Delhi on July 14, 2022. Credit: Getty Images).

Gli ospiti di oggi sono Matteo Bassetti, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Lorenzo Repice, Pamela Prati e Dario Nardella!

In the OECD's PISA survey of 66 countries in 2018, 88% of high-school principals reported that climate change was covered in their school's curriculum. But it was Italy that was the first country in the world to make climate change coursework mandatory in all public schools. As Italy's Minister of Education, University and Research in 2019, Lorenzo Fioramonti drove Italy's climate education reform. Nita Seng is a middle-school math and science teacher in the United States and co-director of Subject to Climate. She gives us the teacher's point of view on reforming school curricula to integrate climate education. Host: Clara Young, Producer: Taline Shahinian.

Some economists have long argued that to really save the planet – and ourselves – from the climate crisis, we need a fundamental overhaul of the way our economies work. In this episode, we explore the ideas of the degrowth movement and their calls for a contraction in the world's consumption of energy and resources. We also compare degrowth to other post-growth proposals for governments to reduce their fixation on economic growth.Featuring Samuel Alexander, research fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Lorenzo Fioramonti, full professor of political economy at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and also a serving Italian MP, and Beth Stratford PhD candidate at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the UK.And Veronika Meduna, science, health and environment editor at The Conversation in Wellington, gives us some recommended reading about the coronavirus situation in New Zealand. The Conversation Weekly is produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. You can sign up to The Conversation's free daily email here. Full credits for this episode available here. Further readingBeyond GDP: here's a better way to measure people's prosperity, by Henrietta Moore,UCLTime for degrowth: to save the planet, we must shrink the economy, by Jason Hickel, London School of Economics and Political ScienceRediscover the ideas of Jacques Ellul, pioneer of décroissance, by Patrick Chastenet, Université de Bordeaux (in French)‘If you want summer, get vaccinated' – Jacinda Ardern sets the target for re-opening New Zealand, by Michael Plank, University of Canterbury and Shaun Hendy, University of AucklandNew Zealand cannot abandon its COVID elimination strategy while Māori and Pasifika vaccination rates are too low, by Collin Tukuitonga, University of Auckland See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Draghi e altri 15 leader europei: "No alla discriminazione Lgbti, le future generazioni crescano nell'uguaglianza e nel rispetto". Continua la discussione dopo la posizione del Vaticano sul DdL Zan. Ne parliamo con Cesare Mirabelli, Presidente emerito della Corte Costituzionale, avvocato e già docente di diritto ecclesiastico. Politica. Oggi il fondatore del M5S Beppe Grillo è atteso a Roma per incontrare i gruppi parlamentari in vista della riscrittura del nuovo Statuto e della rifondazione del partito affidata a Conte. Con noi un ex Ministro in quota 5 Stelle, Lorenzo Fioramonti. Allarme dell'Oms sui ritardi dal piano Covax di vaccinazione nei paesi poveri. Ne parliamo con il portavoce dell'Unicef Italia, Andrea Iacomini.

Prima ora - Audio Whatsapp degli ascoltatori. - Collegamento con Nino Cartabellotta, Presidente della Fondazione Gimbe: dati giornalieri del Coronavirus e analisi dell'Rt, in aumento in alcune regioni. Seconda ora - RadioTraffic: la viabilità con Sharon Fermi. - Intervista a Lorenzo Fioramonti, deputato ed ex Ministro dell'Istruzione, che ha presentato una proposta di legge per regolare l'utilizzo dei dispositivi elettronici da parte dei minori di 12 anni, con limitazioni che variano in base alle fasce d'età. Terza ora - Borse e Mercati con Ettore Livini: la guerra delle capesante. - Astranight, notte dei vaccini a Matera: al telefono, Andrea Molino, dirigente medico a Matera. - Intervista a Maria Chiara Carrozza, Presidente del CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), la prima donna alla guida del più importante e grande centro di ricerca del Paese. Con lei parliamo dei fondi nel PNRR per la ricerca, degli ostacoli per i ricercatori a rimanere in Italia e dei comportamenti maschilisti nei dipartimenti.

Hallo, para pembaca IndoProgress! Baca Buku Bareng IndoProgress edisi ke-4 ini ngobrolin buku berjudul "Problem Domestik Bruto” yang ditulis oleh Lorenzo Fioramonti. Acara yang dipandu dua editor IndoProgress, Fathimah Fildzah Izzati dan Daniel Sihombing ini disiarkan live via akun instagram kami di @indoprogress beberapa hari lalu. Silakan follow akun instagram @indoprogress untuk menonton siaran langsung Baca Buku Bareng IndoProgress lainnya.

Nella puntata di oggi, tra i nostri ospiti: l'On. Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ex Ministro dell'Istruzione (Ex M5S attualmente al Gruppo Misto); Goffredo Bettini, Membro della direzione nazionale del PD; Gianni Dragoni, Giornalista de "IlSole24Ore"; Car...

“Su scuola governo improvvisa. Con Azzolina non c'è buon rapporto" "La didattica a distanza può anche andare bene come integrativa, complementare ma non funziona come didattica vera e propria. Non funziona soltanto in Italia ma in tutto il mondo. Gli studi fatti in questi mesi ci dicono che, quando va bene e non ci sono problemi di connessione, la didattica a distanza raggiunge il 40% degli impatti della didattica in frequenza. In Italia abbiamo vissuto situazioni drammatiche, i genitori si sono dovuti caricare di responsabilità enormi, molti insegnanti hanno dovuto fare i salti morali. Purtroppo l'approccio del governo è stato improvvisato su tantissimi punti e continua ad esserlo". Così Lorenzo Fioramonti, ex ministro dell'Istruzione, ospite a Circo Massimo. Sul rapporto con l'attuale ministra dell'Istruzione Lucia Azzolina, Fioramonti spiega: "Sono stato al ministero, anche molto disponibile, per fare il cosiddetto passaggio delle consegne ma la ministra Azzolina non si è mai presentata. Alla fine sono andato via e non ci siamo più sentiti; non credo che ci sia un buon rapporto, ma non c'era neanche prima. Il rapporto tra successore e succeduto non è mai ottimo". "Tra di noi - aggiunge Fioramonti - le impostazioni sono state sempre molto diverse. Secondo me stanno commettendo degli errori imperdonabili perché la scuola in un momento di difficoltà non si può gestire con un pugno di ferro, soprattutto poi quando non si hanno le caratteristiche per farlo". Intervista di Jean Paul Bellotto e Oscar Giannino

Ospite in studio Lorenzo Fioramonti. Al telefono Tommaso Cerno, Luciano Nobili e Maurizio Costanzo !

00:00 Oggi è la giornata dell’ipocrisia sui giornali. Non ci crederete ma il nostro Ministro degli Esteri, Luigi Di Maio, dice su Il Fatto Quotidiano (e dove sennò) che sta […]

00:00 Tra i grillini ormai regna la battaglia dei soldi da restituire al movimento. E Fioramonti dice che non c’è trasparenza nella Casaleggio Associati. 02:55 Adesso l’ex ministro Fioramonti vuole […]

«Non sentiremo la mancanza del ministro Fioramonti, che avrebbe dovuto rassegnare le sue dimissioni già da tempo per i suoi post ignobili e deliranti contro le Forze dell'Ordine e le donne. Lo ha fatto solo dopo l'approvazione della manovra, ammettendo il fallimento su scuola e università di un Governo guidato da un professore». La presidente di Fratelli d'Italia, Giorgia Meloni, ha commentato così, su Facebook la notizia delle dimissioni di Lorenzo Fioramonti da ministro dell'Istruzione. «La sua eredità è un pessimo decreto scuola e la sciagurata invenzione di sugar e plastic tax, due folli tasse che mettono a rischio migliaia di posti di lavoro in Italia. Senza contare la sua proposta di aumentare l'Iva, come ci riportano alcune indiscrezioni di stampa di queste ore. Se ne va uno dei peggiori ministri che l'Italia repubblicana abbia avuto. E ora questo Governo faccia un altro bel regalo agli italiani: vada a casa,» ha concluso Meloni.

Italy is incorporating climate change and sustainability lessons in its curriculum, making it the very first country to do so. Starting next school year, primary and secondary school students in the country will be required to complete 33 hours of climate change and sustainability education. This was according to Italy's education minister Lorenzo Fioramonti, who is an environmental advocate. He explained that the ministry is implementing these changes to put the environment at the core of Italy's education. The initial plan is to use fairy tales to discuss sustainability and climate change to students aged six to 11. Middle schoolers are expected to learn some technical information about climate change, while high school students will tackle the United Nations' (UN's) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through existing school subjects. For example, instead of focusing on locations in geography, the subject will now also cover the impact of human actions on the planet. A group of experts will be involved in the preparation of the new curriculum. Among those who will evaluate it are experts from top universities like Harvard and Oxford. Once the curriculum is revised, teachers will be trained by January 2020 to teach it. Edoardo Zanchini, a vice president of an environmental group in Italy, said that teaching sustainability in schools is very important. However, he warned that the responsibility of dealing with environmental issues should not be passed down to younger generations and that the world can no longer wait for them to act. According to a UN study, the world needs to act urgently within the next decade to prevent extreme calamities caused by global warming in the future.

«La sera del 23 dicembre, ho inviato al Presidente del Consiglio la lettera formale con cui rassegno le dimissioni da Ministro dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca». Comincia così il post di addio pubblicato su Facebook dall'ormai ex ministro dell'Istruzione in quota M5S, Lorenzo Fioramonti. «Per rispetto istituzionale, avevo deciso di attendere qualche altro giorno prima di rendere pubblica la decisione, ma visto che ormai la notizia è stata filtrata ai media, mi sembra giusto parlare in prima persona,» ha precisato Fioramonti, che ha lamentato la mancanza di «coraggio da parte del Governo per garantire quella “linea di galleggiamento” finanziaria» necessaria per rilanciare la scuola italiana. «Il mio impegno per la scuola e per le giovani generazioni non si ferma qui, ma continuerà - ancora più forte - come parlamentare della Repubblica Italiana,» ha assicurato Fioramonti.

Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ministro Istruzione ; Anna Maria Ajello, presidente Invalsi ; Marco Gioannini, Fondazione Agnelli .

Sulla "Grundrente", la nuova pensione minima, la grande coalizione ha trovato l'accordo, anche se molti rimangono i malumori, soprattutto nella CDU. Noi cerchiamo di capire chi saranno i beneficiari. Intervista al ministro della Pubblica istruzione, Lorenzo Fioramonti, sulla sua idea di scuola. In chiusura parliamo con Gianrico Carofiglio del suo ultimo lavoro, "La versione di Fenoglio".

00:00 La manovra fa ancora litigare. Renzi, nella letterina al Corsera, dice (bene) che non si può aumentare l'Iva per diminuire il cuneo fiscale. E poi dà una stoccata a […]

00:00 Parla il ministro dell’Economia, Roberto Gualtieri, e si scopre che fa più deficit del precedente ma va tutto bene 03:04 La manovra darà una botta al diesel e colpirà […]

00:00 Eutanasia e caso dj Fabo, la sentenza della Corte Costituzionale che dice che l’aiuto al suicidio non è sempre punibile 05:17 Il Corriere della Sera ci spiega quanta CO2 […]

00:00 Il premier Conte scopre adesso che il male del’Italia è l’evasione fiscale. Qualcuno gli spieghi che il vero male è la spesa pubblica che nessuno vuole toccare… 05:54 Finalmente […]

00:00 L’assurda tassa sulle merendine e i voli aerei proposta dal ministro Fioramonti che Conte accoglie a braccia aperte 02:55 Di Maio fa lo sviluppista e va contro Fioramonti e […]

Lorenzo Fioramonti, viceministro Istruzione, Università e Ricerca ; Adolfo Scotto Di Luzio, Univ. Bergamo ; Maddalena Gissi, Cisl scuola .

Lorenzo Fioramonti, M5S ; Fernando Ferroni, INFN ; Lucia Baldino, ricercatrice ; Raffaella Mercatelli, ex ricercatrice ; Enrico Acciai, Univ. Copenhagen .

Ospite in studio Lorenzo Fioramonti. Al telefono Peppino Di Capri e Ilenia Pastorelli !

Marco Bonometti, presidente Confindustria Lombardia ; Susanna Camusso, segretario generale Cgil ; Lorenzo Fioramonti, viceministro Istruzione, Università e Ricerca.

GDP - Laurie Taylor talks to Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pretoria, and author of a new book which exposes the flaws of an economic system which values this statistic, above all others, as a measure of prosperity and growth. They're joined by Douglas McWilliams, Deputy Chairman of the Centre for Economics and Business Research. Also, Mali music - Caspar Melville, Lecturer in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at SOAS, discussed his study into the ways in which Eurocentric copyright is impacting on African musical traditions. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

In this episode of the MYD Show, a professor of political economics and the author of the book ‘Wellbeing Economy’, Lorenzo Fioramonti, joined us in studio. International speaker, author of nine books and numerous scientific articles that have been featured all over the world, from the New York Times to the Harvard Business Review, Lorenzo shares a new vision for an economy not based on growth but based on wellbeing, what he calls the greatest challenge of our civilization today.

Sharp falls in commodity prices have dealt serious blows to the prospects of workers, communities, and businesses in large parts of Africa over the last few years. The World Bank said economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa slumped to its lowest level for more than two decades last year and earlier this month South Africa, the continent’s third largest economy, re-entered recession. The picture is not uniformly bleak – the outlook is much more positive in East Africa – but the continent’s largest economies are suffering. Can they turn things around and end their reliance on oil and mining? What hope is there for those seeking relief from poverty, and what jobs might they do in the future? Ed Butler is joined by a panel of guests: Kola Karim, CEO of Shoreline Group, a Nigerian energy and infrastructure company; professor Mthuli Ncube, head of Quantum Global Research Lab and former chief economist of the African Development Bank; and Lorenzo Fioramonti, professor of political economy at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa. (Picture: Women fill wheelbarrows with coal in South Africa. Credit: Marco Longari, Getty Images)

Today on the podcast, I'm joined by Lorenzo Fioramonti, author of The World After GDP. Listen to this podcast to learn about the flaws in a system which values GDP as the primary measure for growth and also for prosperity, what the world after GDP might look like, and what a post-GDP world mean for politics and for politicians who seem to be completely obsessed with economic growth. Lorenzo Fioramonti is Professor of Political Economy & Director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His new book is The World After GDP: Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era. GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP above all else as a measure of prosperity and growth. In this provocative and inspiring new book, political economist Lorenzo Fioramonti sets out his vision of a world after GDP. Focusing on pioneering research on alternative metrics of progress, governance innovation and institutional change, he makes a compelling case for the profound and positive transformations that could be achieved through a post-GDP system of development. Welcome to World After GDP with Lorenzo Fioramonti, in episode 199 of Informed Choice Radio.   Some questions I ask: -What are some of the flaws in a system which values GDP as the primary measure for growth and also for prosperity? -How did we get to where we are today as GDP being this main measure of what we use? -Is it fair to say that politicians will always find a reason to continue using GDP, it always suits their particular aims? -What would an alternative measure look like and does it exist already or is it something we need to create? -What would the world after GDP look like? -Would there be any negatives associated with that world? -Are politicians like Donald Trump compatible with a post-GDP world? Thank you for listening! To get new episodes of Informed Choice Radio sent directly to your device as soon as they are published, you can subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher Your reviews on iTunes are incredibly helpful and really appreciated. We get notified about each one; please leave a note of your name and website URL so we can mention you in a future episode.  

Mansour Sy and Lorenzo Fioramonti join us to share quite different, but equally interesting visions on how to approach the issue of radically falling prices for commodities that has thrown many African economies into disarray. Find the shownotes on www.africanarguments.org/podcast

Numbers have come to dominate our politics and our news cycle. GDP, inflation, CPI, RPI, credit ratings, FTSE, debt ratios, discount rates, the list goes on. While politicians and commentators wield these numbers to justify their decisions and criticise their opponents, not everyone is convinced we should allow numbers to dominate our political discourse. In this podcast, Alex Burd talks to Lorenzo Fioramonti, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation of the University of Pretoria. and author of a new book, How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics.  Note:  An Italian translation is available below this English transcript.   Lorenzo began by explaining his thesis. Lorenzo Fioramonti: We have created a system of accounting, of calculation, of numerical production that is governing all the decisions we take as a society. They dictate the choices that our policy makers take, they dictate what we consider productive or not. It’s like a meta-analysis, our economists and policy makers are not so powerful as we think in terms of what decisions we take or they are powerful and they find ways of justifying their decisions by using numbers that give an appearance of neutrality to the decisions that they take so that the society can accept them, often when they’re hard, and have a severe impact on our wellbeing; because the numbers somehow make these decisions look inevitable. Alex Burd: They’re used to mask the motives of controversial decisions, such as in Britain the recent spending cuts? LF: Yes, I would say that ‘austerity speak’ these days, especially in Europe, is being cloaked under the power of these numbers. Take GDP. GDP is often used as a way of curbing popular dissent against certain pro market decisions because GDP says the only way for us to develop and grow is to support certain sectors in the business community and therefore we need to be willing to take tough decisions to reduce spending, to reduce benefits and so on. And often at the same time, while we do that, we pay for the subsidies that go into the pockets of those who produce the growth that is reflected in GDP. So all these numbers, and I could go on and on with other examples, are used in times of austerity to justify the difficult cuts that our governments are putting forward at the moment. AB: A lot has been made of the fact that UK chancellor, George Osborne, is a politician and many of the people around him are politicians without real world experience. George Osborne also doesn’t have any economics background. Is this a problem as numbers become more and more important? LF: It is a problem to a certain extent. Numbers are created by experts (or technocrats, as I call them). So when politicians who have been elected by citizens to take decisions in the name of social justice and redistribution and collective wellbeing use numbers without even understanding the methodological components then we have a double problem. We have a problem because those who execute these decisions are doing it in the name of numbers that they themselves do not understand, and they become even more dangerous perpetrators, or executors, of decisions they do not themselves control. So on the one hand the politics of numbers has given a lot of power to technocrats; some of these technocrats are operating behind the scenes. We don’t see them. Some of them are executive directors in central banks; or they are part of very powerful think tanks and so. Some of them also play political roles, but often the policy makers, those that make the ultimate decisions are influenced by numbers they themselves don’t understand. AB: I see. You mentioned earlier that one of the numbers you have a problem with is the continued use of GDP. Why when it’s so flawed is it still persisted with?

The power of 'numbers' in global politics: Laurie Taylor talks to the economist, Lorenzo Fioramonti, about the hidden agendas which may underpin the use of statistics, affecting the way we deal with poverty and sustainability. Numbers are at the heart of debates on the GDP which drives our economies and the credit ratings which steer financial markets. But what is behind these numbers? Also, pride and prejudice in Northern Ireland: The social anthropologist, Jennifer Curtis, discusses her research with Belfast's LGBT Pride Festival to explore religious groups' increasing support for gay rights since 2008. She's joined by Andrew McKinnon, an expert on the sociology of religion. Producer: Jayne Egerton.