Content by Dirk Philipsen
The covid crisis has made clear that the private sector depends on the public good
For too long, policymakers have ignored how the common good precedes and is required by private benefit
Dirk Philipsen
Dirk Philipsen is an economic historian and wellbeing economics advocate who teaches public policy and history at Duke University in North Carolina. He is also a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. His most recent book is The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do About It (Princeton, 2015/17).