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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Hardcover – 22 Mar. 2017
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Print length320 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherChelsea Green Publishing Company
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Publication date22 Mar. 2017
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Dimensions15.3 x 2.6 x 22.9 cm
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ISBN-101603586741
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ISBN-13978-1603586740
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"Raworth's magnum opus. . . . A fascinating reminder to business leaders and economists alike to stand back at a distance to examine our modern economics."--Forbes, "Best Business Books of 2017"
"An admirable attempt to broaden the horizons of economic thinking."--Financial Times, Martin Wolf, "Best Books of 2017: Economics"
"This is truly the book we've all been waiting for. Kate Raworth provides the antidote to neoliberal economics with her radical and ambitious vision of an economy in service to life. Given the current state of the world, we need Doughnut Economics now more than ever."--L. Hunter Lovins, president and founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions
"[A] sharp, insightful call for a shift in thinking . . . Raworth's energetic, layperson-friendly writing makes her concept accessible as well as intriguing."--Publishers Weekly
"Can anyone seriously suppose that today's economic orthodoxies are going to bring the world back from the brink of chaos? We need to fundamentally rethink the way we create and distribute wealth, and Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics provides an inspiring primer as to how we must now set about that challenge. I hope it ushers in a period of intense debate about the kind of economy we now so urgently need."--Jonathon Porritt, author of The World We Made; founding director, Forum for the Future
"What if it were possible to live well without trashing the planet? Doughnut Economics succinctly captures this tantalising possibility and takes up its challenge. Brimming with creativity, Raworth reclaims economics from the dust of academia and puts it to the service of a better world."--Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity without Growth
"Not long ago, well-known development economist Kate Raworth's Doughnut graphic became an overnight sensation. Now this marvelous book clearly and succinctly explains her re-envisioning of the economy. On a bookshelf crowded with attempts to reframe economic thinking and the way forward, this book stands out--brilliantly."--Juliet Schor, author of Plentitude
"Economics rightly is under the microscope. Kate Raworth's insightful Doughnut is what every budding economist should see when they first peer down the lens." --John Fullerton, founder and president, Capital Institute
About the Author
Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century's social and ecological challenges. She is a senior visiting research associate and advisory board member at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute and teaches in its masters program for Environmental Change and Management. She is also senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a member of the Club of Rome. Over the past 20 years Raworth has been a senior researcher at Oxfam, a co-author of UNDP's annual Human Development Reports and a fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, working in the villages of Zanzibar. She is also on the advisory board of the Stockholm School of Economics' Global Challenges Programme and Anglia Ruskin University's Global Resource Observatory. Kate lives in Oxford, England.
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Product details
- Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Company (22 Mar. 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1603586741
- ISBN-13 : 978-1603586740
- Dimensions : 15.3 x 2.6 x 22.9 cm
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Today's economy is divisive and degenerative by default, Tomorrow's economy must be distributive and regenerative by design.
The author, Kate Raworth was eminently qualified for writing the book and in the process articulating her vision for tomorrow's economy. An economist by training, she has worked during the last two decades in environmental and human development studies at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Oxfam, the United Nations Development Program and the Overseas Development Institute in the villages of Zanzibar. The book is the product of this labor and the cumulative experience she acquired.
The author has an appreciation for the power of the picture. So, she depicted her vision of tomorrow's economy as having the shape of a Doughnut. The inner surface of the Doughnut represents a social foundation of well-being that no one should fall below, and the outer surface, an ecological ceiling of planetary pressure that we should not go beyond. Between the two lies a safe and just space for all.
The author, in the body of the book, proposes and elaborates on seven ways to think like a twenty-first century economist and at the same time for each of those seven ways, the spurious image that has occupied our minds, how it came to be so powerful, and the damaging influence it has had.
The ways she proposes are briefly described below:
Change the goal of pursuing GDP growth to investing efforts in meeting the human rights of every person within the means of our life giving planet;
see the big picture; draw the economy anew, embedding it within society and within nature, and powered by the sun; this new deviation invites new narratives: about the power of the market, the partnership of the state, the core role of the household and the creativity of the commons; nurture human nature: the new self-portrait reveals that we are social, interdependent, approximating, fluid in values, and dependent upon the living world; get savvy with systems: manage the economy as an ever-evolving complex system; design to distribute: it is a recognition that there are many ways to design economics to be far more distributive of the value they generate; create to regenerate: this century needs economic thinking that unleashes regenerative design in order to create a circular - not linear economy and to restore humans as full participants in Earth's cyclical processes of life; and finally, be agnostic about growth - what we need is economics that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.
The author is, of course, fully cognizant of the inherent difficulties of the exercise due to the combination of entrenched beliefs, interests, and power. But the skeptical reader, should always remember that the present structure of the economy does not have the power of physical law because it is a human construct amenable to change albeit through vigorous and sustained effort.
Well, quite disappointingly, this book goes as far as pointing out a number of issues in nowadays economic theory (some of which quite obvious) without then offering the above mentioned alternative solution.
I'm really passionate about sustainable development and was really hoping I would find some interesting food for thought in this book, but there's little meat on the bone, and mainly clichè for anyone who's not a complete novice to environmental and social flaws pervading the world we live in.
Sadly, a waste of money.











