Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)

Kate Raworth · c. 2017

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We need economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow

Their wordsToday we have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive; what we need are economies that make us thrive, whether or not they grow.
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Economics is the mother tongue of public policy

Their wordsEconomics is the mother tongue of public policy
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Economies should be distributive by design, circulating value rather than concentrating it

Their wordsAn economy that is distributive by design is one whose dynamics tend to disperse and circulate value as it is created, rather than concentrating it in ever-fewer hands.
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No country has ended deprivation without growth, or ended ecological degradation with it

Their wordsNo country has ever ended human deprivation without a growing economy. And no country has ever ended ecological degradation with one.
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Be agnostic about growth

Their wordsSeventh, be agnostic about growth.
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Economics never draws the long-term path of GDP growth, because it is too dangerous

Their wordsOne diagram in economic theory is so dangerous that it is never actually drawn: the long-term path of GDP growth.

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