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

by Kate Raworth

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“She puts the social foundations together with this idea of the ecological ceiling and says there’s a space in between, where you have the possibility for a regenerative economy that serves both natural systems and human wellbeing. Doughnut Economics also talks about the processes by which you can start to change the economic goals and move toward an economy that actually does serve nature and human beings.” Read more...

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“Doughnut Economics tries to reconcile an environmental vision with the vision of widely shared prosperity.” Read more...

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I have tried to write the book that I wish I could have read when I first went to university to study economics. Growing up in the 1980s and seeing a hole in the ozone layer, famine in Ethiopia, and the Exxon Valdez spewing out its oily contents into Alaska’s waters, I left school knowing I wanted to work for an organisation like Oxfam or Greenpeace, and I believed that the best thing I could do was to equip myself with the mother tongue of public policy: economics. I thought that if I understood economics then I’d be able to address these issues and help tackle poverty, social injustice and environmental degradation. I had a fascinating education at university, with brilliant tutors, but I found that mainstream economics brushes these issues to one side. It talks, for example, about the environment in terms of ‘environmental externalities’—well if you’re going to talk about the living world as an externality then you’ve already told me how important it isn’t.

Many of the issues I cared about, I had to hunt for around the margins of the syllabus, so in the end, I walked away from academic economics. But after working in the villages of Zanzibar for three years, with the United Nations for four, and then a decade with Oxfam—immersing myself in real-world economic challenges—I realised that we’re not going to get to the root cause of these issues unless we rewrite economic theory to make it fit for our own times. Many people think economics is essentially about equations but underlying every equation is a model, and underlying each model is a very basic visual diagram that sneaks so quietly into the backs of our heads that we don’t even realise it’s there, shaping how we think from the get-go. I wanted to change this.

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