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Doughnut Economics

Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth
Kate Raworth
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A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics"

800-CEO-Read "Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs"

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.

Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike.

That's why it is time, says renegade economist Kate Raworth, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century. In Doughnut Economics, she sets out seven key ways to fundamentally reframe our understanding of what economics is and does. Along the way, she points out how we can break our addiction to growth; redesign money, finance, and business to be in service to people; and create economies that are regenerative and distributive by design.

Named after the now-iconic "doughnut" image that Raworth first drew to depict a sweet spot of human prosperity (an image that appealed to the Occupy Movement, the United Nations, eco-activists, and business leaders alike), Doughnut Economics offers a radically new compass for guiding global development, government policy, and corporate strategy, and sets new standards for what economic success looks like.

Raworth handpicks the best emergent ideas—from ecological, behavioral, feminist, and institutional economics to complexity thinking and Earth-systems science—to address this question: How can we turn economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, into economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow?

Simple, playful, and eloquent, Doughnut Economics offers game-changing analysis and inspiration for a new generation of economic thinkers.

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    November 30, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781603587815
      • File size: 311937 KB
      • Duration: 10:49:52

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Marked by the appealing authority of a British academic, Kate Raworth's narration supports the altruistic tone of her message. The renegade British economist is known for her view that economics should study the complex dynamics of social well-being and environmental sustainability instead of GDP and simplistic supply-demand models. Sounding urgent but never alarmist, her presentation has everything you would want to hear in an audiobook that has a humanistic, somewhat anti-establishment, message. When economics focuses on human and planetary sustainability, she says, it can provide data the state can use for judging how government policies can serve the needs of the masses, facilitate productive human interaction, and sustain life in an ecosystem that we are clearly on the way to destroying. T.W. 2019 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 13, 2017
      This sharp, insightful call for a shift in thinking from economist Raworth posits that a long-overdue intellectual revolution has finally begun. According to her, the established model of economic thought no longer satisfies economics students, who are calling out for change; the education they’re receiving is out of pace with current economic realities. To formulate a better model, Raworth reversed the way she’d previously looked at economics. Rather than relying on established truisms, she laid out long-term goals for humankind and worked to figure out how economic thinking would allow us to achieve them. The result is a diagram consisting of a series of rings around a hollow center—the titular doughnut. Raworth places a “safe and just space for humanity” in a ring between a social foundation and an ecological ceiling, leaving human deprivation and planetary degradation, respectively, in the doughnut “hole” and outside the doughnut. The plan to move forward consists of seven ideas, such as shifting the goal of economists from addressing financial to humanitarian concerns, recognizing ecology as a significant factor in economic growth, responsibly redistributing wealth, and so on. This is a highly optimistic look at the global economy, and Raworth’s energetic, layperson-friendly writing makes her concept accessible as well as intriguing.

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