Kate Raworth
English economist known for Doughnut Economics (2017), a model balancing human needs against planetary boundaries; co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab and senior associate at Oxford's Environmental Change Institute.
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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.
↗Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsEconomics is the mother tongue of public policy
↗Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)archive.org All 6 from this book
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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.
↗Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsNo country has ever ended human deprivation without a growing economy. And no country has ever ended ecological degradation with one.
↗Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsSeventh, be agnostic about growth.
↗Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsOne diagram in economic theory is so dangerous that it is never actually drawn: the long-term path of GDP growth.
↗Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsI sincerely believe we – humanity – are at a critical juncture in determining our chances of having a flourishing planet on which we all can thrive this century. And the economic worldview that we use will significantly shape that.
↗For 21st century progress, pick your paradigm…kateraworth.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsSo there is much to be gained by engaging respectfully with those who disagree with us.
↗For 21st century progress, pick your paradigm…kateraworth.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt’s time for a new economic story that’s fit for the 21st century – but how should that story begin?
↗Happy birthday, Neoliberalism, and farewell.kateraworth.com
- 17 months earlier
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Their wordsHere’s what troubles me about degrowth: I just can’t bring myself to use the word.
- 17 months earlier
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Economics students are being taught a model of the economy that is out of date and dangerous.
Their wordsThe policymakers of the future – today’s economics students – are being sold a model of the economy that is not just long out-of-date, but downright dangerous.
↗What’s missing at the heart of macroeconomics?kateraworth.com
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Their wordsFor over half a century, the goal has been economic growth – but while the global economy has quadrupled in size since the 1970s, human deprivation persists, environmental degradation is deepening, and inequality is at the heart of it all. It’s clear that we need richer concepts and measures of what our economies should be aimed at.