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Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist 1: From GDP to the Doughnut

September 4, 2017

Introducing doughnut economics. In the 20th century, economists lost its purpose and started chasing the false goal of GDP growth. In recent decades that has pushed many societies into deepening inequality, and it’s pushing us all towards ecological collapse. This century calls for a new goal.

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Kate Raworth

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

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