# Sustainability: Root Problems in Finance

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Professor Ian Morison, Neal Stephenson, Bob McDowall, Faisal Islam, Neil Eckert, Mark Field MP, James Fierro
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Economics, Business and management
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/sustainability-root-problems-finance)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The Long Finance initiative to establish a World Centre of Thinking on Long-Term Finance began in 2007 with a question, "When would we know our financial system is working?" which challenges a system that can't provide today's 20 year olds with a reliable financial retirement structure. The aim of the Long Finance Institute is "to improve society's understanding and use of finance over the long-term." The research project proposals range from theory versus practice or fiscal versus monetary to sustainability versus robustness.

## Lectures

1. [Deep Pasts and Deep Futures: What Is The Immediate Relevance Of The Long-Term To Finance?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-sustainability-root-problems-finance/800f9310aec2) (YouTube)
2. [Democracy or Markets: Who Can Take The Longer View?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-sustainability-root-problems-finance/7386e49f78e7) (YouTube)
3. [Sustainability - The Problem of Time](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-sustainability-root-problems-finance/99f7841f0af2) (YouTube)