Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, by Kate Raworth.

• 320 pages
• Chelsea Green Publishing
• 29th March, 2018
• ISBN: 9781603587969

An essential read for anyone who understands that infinite growth on a finite planet is a bad idea, Kate Raworth explores how our economies can be distributive and regenerative by design. Using the outer ring of the planetary boundaries and the inner ring of our basic human needs Raworth shows us how we can create a ‘safe and just space for humanity’. Given we are exceeding six of nine planetary boundaries already, operating inside the boundaries of the doughnut will require a period of degrowth before we reach a ‘steady-state’ economy within the doughnut.

Raworth’s TedTalk, titled ‘A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow‘ is worth a watch if you’d like to understand more before diving into the book.

*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”

About the Author, Kate Raworth:

“Kate Raworth (sounds like ‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab.

Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21^st century economist has been translated into over 20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences, from the UN General Assembly to Pope Francis to Extinction Rebellion.

Kate is a Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Over the past 25 years, Kate’s career has taken her from working with micro-entrepreneurs in the villages of Zanzibar to co-authoring the Human Development Report for UNDP in New York, followed by a decade as Senior Researcher at Oxfam.

She holds a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and an MSc in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of York, KU Leuven, and Business School Lausanne. She is a member of the Club of Rome and currently serves on the World Health Organisation Council on the Economics of Health for All.

Kate has written extensively for media including The Guardian, The New Statesman, Newsweek.com, and Wired.com, and has contributed to many radio programmes including for BBC Radio 4, The World Service, ABC and NPR, as well as television including CNN World News, Al-Jazeera, BBC, ITV and CBC. The Guardian has named her as “one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation”.

She blogs at www.kateraworth.com and tweets @kateraworth.”

About Erin Remblance, your host during #DegrowthLitMonth:

Erin Remblance established her early career in blue-chip fast-moving consumer goods companies in Sydney & London, but always sensed there was more important work to be done. Having children gave her the space to explore the environmental and cultural crises on the planet that need to be urgently addressed. She shifted her focus to dedicate her life towards educating people on climate change, degrowth, planetary boundaries, modern monetary theory and more. Erin is a writer, researcher, co-creator of (re)Biz, wife, and mother of three children. She lives north of Sydney, Australia with her family, on the occupied ancestral country of the Gayemagal people.

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