Katherine Trebeck — "The Clusterfuck Monologues"

Katherine Trebeck is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic systems change. She is a co-founder of WEAll, short for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, as well as WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub. She also initiated the Wellbeing Economy Governments initiative, in which the governments of Scotland, Iceland, New Zealand, Wales and Finland work together on creating wellbeing economies. After working and living in Scotland for well over a decade, she returned to her home country, Australia, in 2023, where she is now working on a range of different projects to advance the introduction of wellbeing economies.

Katherine's website:

https://katherinetrebeck.com/

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From our conversation:

"This young Koala has a mental health problem."

⁠https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/05/young-koala-mental-health-problem/⁠

Text in the New Yorker, about Ayn Rand's influence on American culture, and her "optimistic cruelty":

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-persistent-ghost-of-ayn-rand-the-forebear-of-zombie-neoliberalism

"Yes Minister" page at the BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/yes-minister/

"Don't Look Up":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Up

"Day After Tomorrow":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow

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