What are the benefits of living more slowly?
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About the video: ‘What are the benefits of living more slowly?’
Max-Neef contemplates how everything in life is a matter of choice. But all too often we give up too much in the name of efficiency. Efficiency demands that more be achieved in less time. However, Max-Neef believes we should try to rediscover the virtues of slower living. As an example he reminds us that Cologne’s cathedral took 500 years to build and still stands. In his view, it provides a fitting reminder as to what can be achieved at a leisurely, ‘inefficient’ pace.
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Filmed: Geneva, Switzerland on 21 May 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Manfred Max-Neef
Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist widely respected for his work on international development. In 1981 he wrote the book for which he is best known, ‘From the Outside Looking in: Experiences in Barefoot Economics’, which describes his experiences practising economics among the poor in South America.
In the same year he founded the Centre for Development Alternatives (CEPAUR).
In 1983, Max-Neef won the Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Prize for his work in poverty-stricken areas of developing countries.
Until 2001 he has been Rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia.
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