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*The Sunday Times Bestseller
*A Financial Times Book of the Year
*A Forbes Book of the Year
*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018
*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017
*Porchlight "Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs"
The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis.
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Pity then, or more like disaster, that its fundamental ideas are centuries out of date yet are still taught in college courses worldwide and still used to address critical issues in government and business alike.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.
"This is sharp, significant scholarship . . . Thrilling."-Times Higher Education
"Raworth's magnum opus . . . Fascinating."-Forbes
"Doughnut Economics shows how to ensure dignity and prosperity for all people."-Huffington Post "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"
"A radical new economic theory to help save the environment."-Time
"'Sustainability in all things' should be our species' philosophy; the Doughnut Model our compass for the journey."-Sir David Attenborough
"[It offers] the fresh thinking about the economy needed in light of the pandemic."-Pope Francis
"A thought-provoking book."-John Cassidy, The New Yorker
"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
"An excellent book."-Harvard Business Review
"I read this book with the excitement that the people of his day must have read John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. It is brilliant, thrilling, and revolutionary. Drawing on a deep well of learning, wisdom, and deep thinking, Kate
*A Financial Times Book of the Year
*A Forbes Book of the Year
*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018
*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017
*Porchlight "Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs"
The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis.
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.
"This is sharp, significant scholarship . . . Thrilling."-Times Higher Education
"Raworth's magnum opus . . . Fascinating."-Forbes
"Doughnut Economics shows how to ensure dignity and prosperity for all people."-Huffington Post "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"
"A radical new economic theory to help save the environment."-Time
"'Sustainability in all things' should be our species' philosophy; the Doughnut Model our compass for the journey."-Sir David Attenborough
"[It offers] the fresh thinking about the economy needed in light of the pandemic."-Pope Francis
"A thought-provoking book."-John Cassidy, The New Yorker
"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
"An excellent book."-Harvard Business Review
"I read this book with the excitement that the people of his day must have read John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. It is brilliant, thrilling, and revolutionary. Drawing on a deep well of learning, wisdom, and deep thinking, Kate