Why are we driven to keep buying things that we don’t really need, using money we don’t really have? Consumer debt has become a cultural norm in many countries in less than two generations. What is driving this and how do we move away from rampant consumerism to focus less on today and more on tomorrow? Simon Dallow interviews Dr. Jane Horan, Economic Anthropologist, at the NZ-OECD High-level Global Symposium on Financial Education 2016.