Coming Soon: The New Economy

Bloomberg’s head of economics Stephanie Flanders calls on Bloomberg's worldwide network of reporters and expert commentators to cast a fresh eye on looming challenges for the world economy which affect us all.

This 6 part podcast combines on the ground reporting with expert discussion on the future of cities, finance and technology, trade, global governance and making growth more inclusive. It's the start of a global conversation on how to confront these issues which will continue in Singapore in early November, when around 400 top business leaders and thinkers from across the globe will gather in Singapore for the first New Economy Forum.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
So imagine you had around four hundred senior leaders and
thinkers from around the world gathered in one room for
two days to think about the future of the global
economy and how to make it better. What would you
want to talk about first? It's not just a thought experiment.
That's exactly what is going to happen in Singapore this
November at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, and this being

(00:22):
in my Bloomberg production. They're going to talk about a lot,
including climate change, technology and finance, the future of cities,
and the challenge of inclusion. I'm Stephanie Flanders, head of
Bloomberg Economics. I'm studying the conversation early with the New
Economy Podcasts, a six part series involving some of Bloomberg's
smartest analysts and reporters. International relations as a discipline hasn't

(00:48):
come up with any new paradigm since ancient Greece, which
I think reflects badly on international relations scholars. I have
never seen anything like this plant at Rolls Royce. The
robots operating behind the windows of the big boxes are
constantly self optimizing, that is, remeasuring themselves. When I started

(01:10):
investigating the Green Book, I discovered that many trade experts
hadn't heard of it. I asked the Chinese government to
talk to me about it, but I had a brick
wall of silence. Mounting segregation, mounting poverty, massive concentrated disadvantage.
This geography of haves and have nots is creating the
greatest political backlash and the greatest political crisis of our time.

(01:31):
I read a lot of science fiction, and I know
that about I would say about one third of science
fiction scenarios tend to come truth. That's the new economy coming.
October twenty nine