Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges. She is a senior visiting research associate and advisory board member at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and teaches in its masters program for Environmental Change and Management. She is also senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a member of the Club of Rome. Over the past 20 years Raworth has been a senior researcher at Oxfam, a co-author of UNDP’s annual Human Development Reports and a fellow of the Overseas Development Institute, working in the villages of Zanzibar. She is also on the advisory board of the Stockholm School of Economics’ Global Challenges Programme and Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Resource Observatory. Kate lives in Oxford, England. For more information visit kateraworth.com
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 54 Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric
By Vicki Robin, Kate Raworth, Roman Krznaric, Resilience.org
Together, Kate Raworth and Roman Krznaric address the one core question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Kate Raworth: Doughnut Economics at the city scale
By Julian Agyeman, Kate Raworth, Shareable
And here’s the question that we invite every ambitious city to ask itself. How can our city, be a home to thriving people, in a thriving place, while respecting the well-being of all people and the health of the whole planet?
So You Want to Downscale the Doughnut ? Here’s How.
By Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics
Today is the launch of Creating City Portraits – a methodological guide for downscaling the Doughnut to the city and turning it into a tool for transformative action.
Introducing the Amsterdam City Doughnut
By Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics
April 8 was the launch of the Amsterdam City Doughnut, which takes the global concept of the Doughnut and turns it into a tool for transformative action in the city of Amsterdam.
Dollars to Doughnuts: The Shape of a New Economy
By Allen White, Kate Raworth, The Great Transition Initiative
In my book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist, I try to reframe economics through the power of images. The diagrams that we draw profoundly shape our thinking. If we’re going to thrive in the twenty-first century, and if economists are going to be helpful in doing so, we need to rename and redraw the economy.
P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival
By Michel Bauwens, Kate Raworth, Commons Transition
Why should you read this latest report of the P2P Foundation, and why does it matter? Our inspiration comes from the great synthesis provided by Kate Raworth in her book, Doughnut Economics, which graphically presents the great question of our age: can we produce for human needs, without exceeding planetary boundaries?
Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First-Century Economist
By Kate Raworth, Resilience.org
Whether you consider yourself an economic veteran or novice, now is the time to uncover the economic graffiti that lingers in all of our minds and, if you don’t like what you find, scrub it out; or, better still, paint it over with new images that far better serve our needs and times.
Kate Raworth on Doughnut Economics
By Adam Simpson, Kate Raworth, The Next System Project
So sometimes you meet people who say, "Oh, I'm involved in a local cooperative and we're developing open source software," or "we're setting up a complementary currency in our neighbor." It can all sound a bit small and marginal and kind of niche activity. I often think it gets dismissed as that, hooky stuff around the edges of the economy. What I wanted to do with that quote is say, actually, this is the creation space of a new future.