Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist by Kate Raworth


Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
Title : Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
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Language : English
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Publication : Chelsea Green Publishing

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and social challenges that define our times.Pity then, or like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike.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

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist Reviews

  • NJM

    Absolutely brilliant! Explains in layman's terms why we are where we are on the verge of disaster and how we need to radically rethink even our most cherished notions if we have even a hope of survival. Hard not to be depressed by all that but that's hardly

  • Ian Robertson

    In her introductory statement of purpose, Oxford economist Kate Raworth contends her new book, Doughnut Economics, uses “visual framing” to “transform twenty first century economic thinking.” The central image of the book is of course a doughnut, with planetary

  • P. Bowie

    An interesting and unique on critical economic challenges related to climate change and a just transition.

  • Ariosto

    When people think before they waste their present and their future.

  • Desmond Berghofer

    Doughnut Economics conveys in crisp sparkling language the economic message the world has been waiting for. Not that economic texts are on the top of most people's reading list, but this one is a breakthrough in terms of its readability and superbly organized argument. It

  • Guy Dauncey

    I am engaged in a massive 130 book reading and research blitz to understand what every new economist who had published in the English language is saying, and piece together the shape of the emerging cooperative economy. So I welcomed Kate Raworth's book with

  • Anthony Humble

    For anyone like me who was indoctrinated into the pseudo science of neo classical economics before their frontal cortex was fully developed, Kate Raworth has arrived at your door with the long awaited and desperately overdue intervention. I discovered this brilliant book

  • H. Friesen

    As someone who has not studied economics, I found this book challenging. At the same time I found it interesting as it offers a different take on economics and some of the most common assumptions that go along with its teaching at the University level. Her ideas are meant