Faced with falling fertility rates, a cost-of-living crisis and the enduring impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, we look at what the future looks like for the current generation of children.
While every generation has its challenges, Generation Alpha (those born between 2010 and 2025) has endured the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic as young children, compounded with the ever-increasing domination of technology and social networking.
What does the future have in store for Generation Alpha? Will they go on to have children? Will they be able to retire? Should they forget about the possibility of home ownership entirely? Our panel of experts mull over these questions and discuss what the lives of the children of millennials might look like. The New York Times economics and business reporter Eshe Nelson is joined by Michael McMahon, Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, to discuss this. Joining them on the panel will be Paul Lindley, founder of Ella’s Kitchen and author of Raising the Nation: How to Build a Better Future for Our Children (and Everyone Else), Olivia Sweeney, former Black and Green Ambassador and consultant at Resource Futures, a sustainable waste consultancy and Sarah O’Connor, columnist, reporter and associate editor at the Financial Times.
Eshe Nelson is a business and economics reporter for The New York Times in London.
Paul Lindley OBE is an award-winning British entrepreneur, social campaigner and best-selling author. In 2006 he founded Ella’s Kitchen, the UK’s largest baby food brand.
Michael McMahon is Professor of Economics at University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College.
Olivia Sweeney is a lifetime environmentalist and a former Black and Green Ambassador. As part of this, she and two other ambassadors were invited to share the outcomes of their work in the Blue Zone at COP 26.
Sarah O’Connor is a columnist, reporter and associate editor at the Financial Times.
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Festival of Economics 2023
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Festival of Economics
Festival of Economics 13-16 November 2023
Find out about this year’s programme of events.