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Society is obsessed with consumption

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Society is obsessed with consumption

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Economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by now technology would have allowed work to be replaced by leisure. In a BBC clip Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, looks at what happened to Keynes' predictions and explores why society is obsessed with economic growth.