Why the Global Economy (and Your Pension) Is Flying Blind | Anastasia Linn
Host Jeni Miles talks to Anastasia Linn, co-founder of the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance, about why sustainable finance is built on flawed economic foundations. They explore ecological economics, the risks facing pension funds, moral purity in climate action, and why staying inside extractive industries, rather than leave them, may offer the greatest leverage for change.
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Show Notes
Host Jeni Miles talks to Anastasia Linn, co-founder of the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance, about why sustainable finance is built on flawed economic foundations. They explore ecological economics, the risks facing pension funds, moral purity in climate action, and why staying inside extractive industries — not leaving them — may offer the greatest leverage for change.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Discover why neoclassical economics, the foundation of all mainstream finance, leaves nature and energy out of its models entirely.
- Understand the shift from an "empty world" to a "full world" economy, and why growth-based finance no longer fits planetary limits.
- Learn why walking away from extractive industries may be less effective than staying and using your position for change.
- Explore how "multi-capital" thinking (natural, social, human and manufactured capital) reframes what a secure retirement actually looks like.
- Hear why UK actuaries are warning that ecological collapse threatens the entire financial system, even as other institutions downplay the risk.
- Move beyond the trap of moral purity, and understand why shame-based climate narratives can hold back real systemic change.
- Find out why hope, in Anastasia's view, isn't something you wait for. It's something you build through action.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Anastasia Linn is co-founder of the Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance. Her background spans the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, the World Climate Foundation, and the House of Beautiful Business. Follow her on Linkedin: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/avlinn
LINKS & RESOURCES
- Arketa Institute — https://www.arketa-institute.org/
- Institute and Faculty of Actuaries — Planetary Solvency report — https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency-tipping-into-the-wild-unknown/
- A Tale of Two Actuaries (Matt Orsagh) — https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-actuaries
- Financial activism playbook & zine (Jasmine Rashid) — https://www.jasminerashid.com/
- Rethinking Economics – https://rethinkeconomics.org/
- Triodos Bank — https://www.triodos.co.uk/
- Alexis Shotwell — https://www.alexisshotwell.com/
- Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Alexis Shotwell) — https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816698646/against-purity/
- Joanna Macy — https://www.joannamacy.net/
- Active Hope (Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone) — https://newworldlibrary.com/product/active-hope-revised
- Good Grief Network — https://goodgriefnetwork.org/
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Who is Jeni Miles?
I’m a London School of Economics trained behavioural scientist, digital product expert and mum of two passionate about cultivating collective and planetary wellbeing.
Business as usual is no longer fit for purpose in an age of polycrisis. I’m taking the data-driven decision-making skills I’ve gained while at leading tech companies Google and Amazon to empower brands and social movements to drive positive behaviour change.
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