Doughnut economics : seven ways to think like a 21st century economist
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
330/RAWORTH,K

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 330/RAWORTH,K Available

Details

PUBLISHED
White River Junction, Vermont : Chelsea Green Publishing, [2017]
©2017
DESCRIPTION

309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781603587969, 9781603586740, 1603586741, 1603587969, 9781603587969
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Who wants to be an economist? -- Change the goal : from GDP to the doughnut -- See the big picture : from self-contained market to embedded economy -- Nurture human nature : from rational economic man to social adaptable humans -- Get savvy with systems : from mechanical equilibrium to dynamic complexity -- Design to distribute : from "growth will even it up again" to distributive by design -- Create to regenerate : from "growth will clean it up again" to regenerative by design -- Be agnostic about growth : from growth addicted to growth agnostic -- We are all economists now -- Appendix : The doughnut and its data

Raworth 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