Late Night Live: Phillip Adams interviews Jane Gleeson-White, August 2021
Jane Gleeson-White has written extensively about capitalism and the environment. Her essay ‘Erasure’ for Griffith Review explores how women’s work was characterised as ‘unproductive’ by neoclassical economists in the 19th century and thus wiped from view.
In her new essay Erasure: Women, economics and language Gleeson-White calls for more focus to be given to relationships of care.
The Wheeler Centre
In a talk called ‘Monks, maths and magic’, I spoke at the Wheeler Centre about the Renaissance friar Luca Pacioli who wrote Europe’s first encyclopaedia of mathematics, as well as a book of magic, games and jokes with his friend Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli’s encyclopaedia contained the first printed treatise on double-entry bookkeeping, which today underpins the global economy. I argue that double entry’s shortcomings - it fails to account for the living systems of the earth - make its dominance today deeply problematic.
2021 Griffith Review Alumni Event
On 24 June 2021 I joined farmer and writer Gabrielle Chan, economist and former treasurer Ken Henry, and businessman and philanthropist Alan Schwartz at the National Portrait Gallery for a searching and wide ranging conversation about how we value the natural world in the face of climate change.
ABC Big Ideas: What Price Nature?
Can we better conserve our ecosystems and biodiversity by placing an economic value on them? Some scientists, environmentalists and economists believe we need to view the natural environment as 'natural capital'. Paul Barclay speaks to a panel of experts.
Paul Barclay speaks to Charles Massy, farmer and author; Jane Gleeson-White, author and Hugh Possingham, Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, Professor University of Queensland.
Presented by the Griffith Review. Recorded on 21 March, 2019
ABC Conversations: Richard Fidler interviews Jane Gleeson-White 2014
Jane's first book explored the colourful history of double-entry book-keeping.
She's since been on the trail of a new and almost inconceivable movement in business practice, one that doesn't prioritise profit. Jane says this movement, already quite strong in the United States, is going to transform the way the world does business. Accountants, she says, are going to save the planet.
ABC Big Ideas: Paul Barclay interviews Jane Gleeson-White
Can accountants save the planet?
An international movement has begun in the finance world, and a few innovative global companies are starting to look at how nature and society can be included in their bottom line. Accounting historian Jane Gleeson-White on the revolution starting to take place in boardrooms, and how it could transform the global economy.
Broadcast 19 February 2015
ABC Conversations: Richard Fidler interviews Jane Gleeson-White 2012
Perhaps the most important and enduring thing to come out of Renaissance Venice was the new way of mapping money.
Franciscan monk Luca Pacioli is known as the 'father' of accounting. He was a highly-talented mathematician, who wrote the first textbook on double entry accounting, making it accessible to everyone. Now the system effectively rules our modern world.
Broadcast date: Tuesday 13 March 2012
Broadcast 4 December 2014
NPR Planet Money talks to Jane Gleeson-White
David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein talk to Jane Gleeson-White about a mathematician, the Last Supper and the birth of accounting
Link to audio here
Broadcast date: September 2012