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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The Doughnut offers a new way to think about sustainable economics in the twenty-first century.
Chapter 3: Economics fixates on growth, yet that narrow metric still fails to fully capture the whole story.
Chapter 4: The economy is more than markets, and it isn’t self-contained, contrary to what many mainstream economists believe.
Chapter 5: Economics frequently relies on flawed and mistaken assumptions about human behavior.
Chapter 6: The real-world economy forms a complex network of interrelated systems today.
Chapter 7: Inequality isn’t required for economies to grow.
Chapter 8: Twenty-first-century economies can be more sustainable, and they can regenerate the environment too.
Chapter 9: Growth isn’t an endless upward curve – we must begin asking ourselves what, exactly, comes next.
Description
Doughnut Economics (2017) is a call to arms for a fresh approach to economics. As inequality soars and environmental crisis looms, the book’s central question has never seemed more relevant. How can we build a just economic system that allows us to thrive while preserving the planet? A good place to start, Kate Raworth suggests, is to do away with the old myths that have shaped economic thinking for so long. Zeroing in on the doughnut-shaped “sweet spot” in which our needs can be sustainably met, this is a thought-provoking read which might just help save the world.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone losing sleep over the Earth’s future as climate change kicks in
- Economic innovators in search of new models for a new century
- Fans of fresh thinking on big topics