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

    Written by Kate Raworth

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    Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike.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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChelsea Green Publishing
    Release dateNov 30, 2017
    ISBN9781603587815
    Author

    Kate Raworth

    Kate Raworth is the author of the best-selling book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. She is Senior Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab.

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    • 4/5
      Interesting analysis and critique of current capitalist systems. I think she did a pretty good job describing a complicated topic. However I will have to listen to some parts again to get it. A bit repetitive.
    • 5/5
      Complex ideas to grasp but good reader. Easy to follow along.
    • 4/5
      Really interesting listen. I did myself a bit of a disservice by listening to it over a month. A more consistent read/listen would have been much better - but I still recommend it. Raworth is part of a new breed of sustainable economists, preaching the need for “economies that enable us to thrive, whether or not they grow” rather than the opposite. Definitely worth checking out.
    • 5/5
      Full of game changing concepts. Will definitely reward repeat reading.
    • 4/5
      The writing is a bit indirect at times and it takes a few chapters to rev up, but it ultimately makes some important points and I would recommend it. I consider myself a pretty broad thinker and this challenged to think even more broadly.